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“First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.”
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“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”
Source : "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.
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“Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”
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“Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.”
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“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”
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“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”
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“The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses”
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“History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”
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“I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Dec 16, 2011 
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“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”
Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan
