"Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage"

--

Ramana Maharshi

#Acquisition Quotes #Camouflage Quotes #Faculty Quotes

“Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.”
“What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?”
“Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.”
“Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.”
“Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.”
“I'm born and raised in Dusseldorf, and my parents emigrated to Germany sometime in the '70s, so I grew up completely different from any other German. I found my love in hip-hop music. Hip-hop was delivering everything that I needed: the message, the lifestyle - everything. I fell in love with it and I'm still hip-hop.”
“The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts off the possibility of an essentially interminable questioning, that is, an effective and thus transforming questioning.”
“If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see that Sabbath time â€“ effortless, nourishing rest â€“ can invite a healing of this violence. When we consecrate a time to listen to the still, small voices, we remember the root of inner wisdom that makes work fruitful. We remember from where we are most deeply nourished, and see more clearly the shape and texture of the people and things before us.”

Source : Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.5, Bantam

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