"In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity."

-- Radhanath Swami

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“The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.”
“It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.”
“I'd probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious.”

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“We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.”

Source : "The Holy Mother's Reminiscences". "Vedanta Kesari" Magazine,
“People always say he can run and he can jump. So can a deer and you wouldn't put a deer in the game.”
“As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is what it is - you know, your father's violent but he loves you and that's just the way it is - later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah.”

Source : "Justin Torres’ Hard-Knock Debut Novel". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. October 3, 2011.
“I know historians aren't supposed to fall in love with their own theories, but I was head over heels about the notion of an entire band of female French agents, like a nineteenth-century Charlie's Angels. Only better. It made the Pink Carnation's organization look positively humdrum.”

Source : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Deception of the Emerald Ring”, p.258, Allison & Busby
“They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For although each man among them was discrete unto himself, conjoined they made a thing that had not been before and in that communal soul were wastes hardly reckonable more than those whited regions on old maps where monsters do live and where there is nothing other of the known world save conjectural winds.”

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