Satyananda Saraswati Quotes

#1. How'd you get through yesterday, though?"
"Running away, you, sarcasm, violence, and last but not least, tequila.

Kylie Scott

#2. Our consumer culture is organized against history. There is a depreciation of memory and a ridicule of hope, which means everything must be held in the now, either an urgent now or an eternal now.

Walter Brueggemann

#3. Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a ... You know.

Ike Turner

#4. It makes no difference whether you worship God, Jehovah, Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, Christ or Krishna- it is still and always one and the same God.

Satyananda Saraswati

#5. I first came across her [Bae Suah] when I read some elderly male critic castigating her for 'doing violence to the Korean language', which of course was catnip to me, especially as I'd recently discovered Lispector doing pretty much the same to Portuguese.

Deborah Smith

#6. The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#7. Drugs allows us to taste the beyond but do not make us masters of the transcendental.

Satyananda Saraswati

#8. Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique in which the distractions of the mind are contained and the mind is relaxed.

Satyananda Saraswati

#9. Yoga is not an ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow

Satyananda Saraswati

#10. It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.

Ramakrishna

#11. He was afraid of stepping up, of becoming everything he could be - not because the powers themselves frightened him. But because if he tried, then the failure was far, far worse. At

Brandon Sanderson

#12. To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

Vachel Lindsay

#13. Just love. The rest is bullshit.

Satyananda Saraswati