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Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda

“Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.”

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian spiritual teacher born on January 5, 1893, and passed away on March 7, 1952. He is considered one of the key figures in spreading yoga and Indian spiritual philosophy in the Western world, profoundly influencing the understanding of Eastern spiritual traditions in the West. more

“Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.”

Ideas School Humanity Left Behinds Generations Style Conversation Evidence Settling Interpretation Absurdity Distrust Left Behind Disabled Disrespect Postmodernism Muster

Author:Daniel Dennett

“For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.”

Religious Sticks Speed Dry Creeds

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.”

Facts Order Authority Argument Contradiction

Book:Bonesetting, Chiropractic and Cultism: A Critical Study of Chiropractic, Its History and Its Methods in Its Relationship with Past and Present-day Medical Science, Along with Analyses, Conclusions and Speculation Regarding Its Status and Its Future

Source: Bonesetting, Chiropractic and Cultism: A Critical Study of Chiropractic, Its History and Its Methods in Its Relationship with Past and Present-day Medical Science, Along with Analyses, Conclusions and Speculation Regarding Its Status and Its Future

“Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.”

Doe Art Vain Quacks Pretender

Book:Dictionary of the English Language ...

Source: Dictionary of the English Language ...

“You just have to press the right keys and the right pedals at the right time and the music plays itself.”

Play Keys Presses Right Time Pedals

Author:Johann Sebastian Bach

“This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.”

Mean Ocean Brooks

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“We musicians, like everyone else, are numb with sorrow at this murder, and with rage at the senselessness of the crime. But this sorrow and rage will not inflame us to seek retribution; rather they will inflame our art. Our music will never again be quite the same. This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before. And with each note we will honor the spirit of John Kennedy, commemorate his courage, and reaffirm his faith in the Triumph of the Mind.”