"Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves."

-- Karen Armstrong

#God Quotes #Christian Quotes #Reality Quotes

“We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.”
“Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.”

Source : Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books
“His [Donald Trump]support is crossing wide swaths of the party. It`s not just the evangelicals. It`s the moderates, as well.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.”
“We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.”

Source : James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
“The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.”
“I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.”
“Health can make money, but money cannot make health.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.173

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