Nora Raleigh Baskin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

  • Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

  • Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

  • Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!

  • How long does getting thin take?

  • Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

  • Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and his mental focus. He was always concentrated on the inner alignment through breath.

  • If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  • People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.

  • You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.