"Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti)."

-- Pandurang Shastri Athavale

#Sentimental Quotes #Action Quotes #Devotion Quotes

“Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.”
“We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.”
“Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.”
“Holding anxiety as your own enemy, and that it has to go down, diminish it, go away and not happen here is a kind of self-invalidating, interiorly focused process that would get you even more entangled with these processes. Instead, what we're going to need to learn to do is to allow your history to bring into the present thoughts and feelings and memories, and to sort of hold them mindfully and self-compassionately, and then focus on what you do and bring them along for that journey.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.”
“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you donâ€™t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth,”

Source : "Standing Cheer for Roberto" by John Wilson, The Sporting News, p. 44, February 20, 1971.
“Living in the middle of beautiy like this, we've no call to have puny ideas about God. Why do you suppose His world is so fancy-fine, so full of wonderment if He doesn't want everything to be good and perfect and right and healthy? But we can spoil His good work. When we mess things up, then we shouldn't blame Him and try to make ourselves feel better by contending that it's what He wanted.”
“Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.”

Source : Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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