"His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but then he never claimed not to be a god."

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Source : "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

Roger Zelazny

#Followers Quotes #Atman Quotes #Said Quotes

“I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.”
“Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.”
“The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.”
“A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.”

Source : Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1984). “The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species”, Gulf Publishing Company
“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.”
“Each time Stalker called you 'dove', I wanted to hit him. Because you're not a little gray bird... you're all the light in the world.”
“It was so cute and she was so shy. Someone told me that Randy Orton went up and hugged her and she wouldn't let go. It was kind of cute.”
“There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.13

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