Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha Quotes

#1. God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

John Piper

#2. There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

Kimbra

#3. The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.

Martin Jacques

#4. They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.

Elvis Costello

#5. Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

#6. We are not men of hate, but we must be men of justice.

Nadeem Aslam

#7. We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

#8. I slowed my pace. Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before me like a landscape of flat land where, a long way off, the sea is visible but can never be reached.

Tracy Chevalier

#9. I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

William Wiley

#10. In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

Frederick Lenz

#11. What we're doing is saying what happens with the establishment and how are we as ordinary human beings are used as pawns. What do we really know about what goes on! We think we are a democracy ... Are we? I'm not so sure.

David Suchet

#12. I think I'll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian?

Jackie Kay

#13. Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

#14. In the prosperous household of Sylvie's childhood, Cook was called 'Cook' but Mrs Glover preferred 'Mrs Glover'. It made her irreplaceable. Sylvie still stubbornly referred to her as Cook.

Kate Atkinson

#15. Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

Pierre Boulez

#16. Voters thereby prove themselves bad and indeed corrupt judges of such issues and often they even prove themselves bad judges of their own long-run interests, for it is only the short-run promise that tells politically and only short-run rationality that asserts itself effectively.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#17. I believe in one day at a time; you've got TODAY, that's what you' ve got.

Al Pacino