"Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge."

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Source : "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Yukteswar Giri, 1946.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#Writing Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Vocabulary Quotes

“I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.”
“Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.”
“There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.”

Source : ANNE STEVENSON (1977). “COIL OF SERPENTS”
“I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.”
“Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us.”
“As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.”
“When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me.”
“Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.”

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