"When Joseph received the revelation that we have in our possession concerning the [baptism of the] dead, the subject was opened to him, not in full but in part... Then women were baptized for men and men for women, & c."

-- Brigham Young

#Men Quotes #Baptism Quotes #Revelations Quotes

“To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Oct 17, 2014
“I never liked mellow sounding guitar.”
“We cannot calculate the numbers of people who left, fled or were fished out of Europe just ahead of the Holocaust.”
“A change is always nice.”
“But to everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.”

Source : Nikolai Bukharin (2005). “How It All Began: The Prison Novel”, p.110, Columbia University Press
“Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?”
“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
“Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.”

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