Shlomo Riskin quotes

Shlomo Riskin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.”
-- Shlomo Riskin

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“The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.”
“If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.”
“In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan
“If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.”
“The only thing you can do to lead a crowd is prove your passion to them.”
“Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.”
“The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly”
“Hereâ€™s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.”
“When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.”
“Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.”

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