". . . I feel we donâ€™t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you canâ€™t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)"

-- Swami Satchidananda

#Book Quotes #Cooking Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.”
“Silence is the best response to a fool...”
“Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.”
“We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?”

Source : "The Spiritual Man".
“these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips”

Source : Lucille Clifton (1980). “Two-headed woman”, Univ of Massachusetts Pr
“We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God”
“The Japanese scientists just found a 25,000-year-old mammoth in the ice in Siberia, and they're about to clone it... You think the Japanese of all people would want nothing to do with prehistoric animals after what happened with Godzilla.”
“Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper.”

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