Gary Paul Nabhan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen. We need seeds because they are the physical manifestation of that concept that we call hope.
-- Gary Paul Nabhan

#Spiritual #Needs #Sparks
We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.
-- Gary Paul Nabhan

#Identity #Males #Connections
We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.
-- Gary Paul Nabhan

#Fate #Land #Needs
Eating is perhaps the most direct way we acknowledge or deny the sacredness of the earth.
-- Gary Paul Nabhan

#Earth #Way #Eating
If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system?
-- Gary Paul Nabhan

#World #May #Be Good

Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.
The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.
A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.
The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.
If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.
I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

Gary Paul Nabhan famous quotes

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