“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots”
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“Once we become conscious, even dimly, of the Atman, the Reality within us, the world takes on a very different aspect. It is no longer a court of justice but a kind of gymnasium. Good and evil, pain and pleasure, still exist, but they seem more like the ropes and vaulting-horses and parallel bars which can be used to make our bodies strong. Maya is no longer an endlessly revolving wheel of pain and pleasure but a ladder which can be climbed to consciousness of the Reality.”
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
― Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination: Viveka-Chudamani
“envy is the only deadly sin that's no fun for the sinner”
― Portrait of the Alcoholic
― Portrait of the Alcoholic
“When the Great Reality is not known the study of the scriptures is fruitless; when the Great Reality is known the study of the scriptures is also fruitless.”
― The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya
― The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom and other writings of Sankaracharya
“Tachi’s galley had a full kitchen and a table with room for twelve. It also had a full-size coffeepot that could brew forty cups of coffee in less than five minutes whether the ship was in zero g or under a five-g burn. Holden said a silent prayer of thanks for bloated military budgets and pressed the brew button. He had to restrain himself from stroking the stainless steel cover while it made gentle percolating noises.”
― Leviathan Wakes
― Leviathan Wakes
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