Geoffrey Willans famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
-- Geoffrey Willans

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History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.
-- Geoffrey Willans

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
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.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.
Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Geoffrey Willans famous quotes

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