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“What is the result of our investigation of the Moslem idea of God? Is the statement of the Koran true, "Your God and our God is the same"? In as far as Moslems are monotheists and in as far as Allah has many of the attributes of Jehovah we cannot put Him with the false gods. But neither can there be any doubt that Mohammed's conception of God is inadequate, incomplete, barren and grievously distorted. It is vastly inferior to the Christian idea of the Godhead and also inferior to the Old Testament idea of God.”
“What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing in victim consciousness? Righteous indignation or an excuse not to change?”
Source: Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
“What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as their property. And we need at last to form a circle that includes us all, in which all of us are seen as equal... We do not belong to the other, but our lives are linked; we belong in a circle of others.”
“What is the right exchange rate at one point is not necessarily the right exchange rate at another.”
“What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?”
“What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually 'to be still' (Ps. 46:10) in order to know God, and when we receive the opportunity, 'to judge uprightly' (Ps. 75:2) in theology.”
“What is the right way today; it may be wrong tomorrow; thus, avail and enjoy the right way of today than waiting, for tomorrow.”
“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”
“What is the ROI (return on investment) of your suffering?”
Source: Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
“What is the role of an electrical fuse?
Amateurs will say, conducting electricity.
But the actual task of a fuse is,
To blow itself when the load is too heavy.
Thus the fuse protects the appliance,
Against any electrical irregularity.
Likewise, we gotta blow our fuse,
Whenever inhumanity hangs heavy.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“What is the saddest day of the year? Labor Day or December 26th? One is given only a certain number of Christmases in one’s life.”
Source: Winter Street
“What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.”
Source: The Scent of Water
“What is the science of Vitraag (the enlightened ones free of attachment)? [It is that where] If one understands a single word of the Vitarag, there will be no pain. But one has not understood a single word of ‘Vir’, the Vitaraag Lord Mahavir [The 24th Tirthankar]”
“What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”
“What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.”
“What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia
“Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,” she replied.”
Source: For the Love of Sophia: Wisdom Stories from Around the World and Across the Ages
“What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts.”
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“What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?”
Source: The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
“What is the short meaning of the long speech?”
“What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“What is the sign of a true Disciple? There should be not be any svacchand (actions that are done as per own’s own understanding only), no abhinivesh (taking things for granted), no drashtirog (deluded vision), no conflicts. There will be no artadhyan (to be in pain within oneself for various reasons) and no raudradhyan (to have intent of giving pain to others).”
Source: The Guru and The Disciple
“What is the sign of the person residing in his own Self as Pure Soul? Vitaragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments]!”
“What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.”
“What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover? It’s the people, investment in people. My proudest moment here wasn’t when I increased profits by 17%, or cut expenditure without losing a single member of staff. No. It was a young Greek guy, first job in the country, hardly spoke a word of English, but he came to me and he went ‘Mr. Brent, will you be the Godfather to my child?’. Didn’t happen in the end. We had to let him go, he was rubbish. He was rubbish!”
“What is the situation today? We have a united country. We have a single currency. We have managed to stabilize the economy, despite difficulties. We could talk all day about all those achievements.”
“What is the size of this universe? The size of this universe is whatever the size of your dreams!”
“What is the solution of this intricate and difficult relationship throughout the world? [...] a new mode of interpreting the ancient spiritual teaching, because man has evolved and what was suitable for infant humanity is today unsuitable for adult mankind.”
Source: Problems of Humanity
“What is the son but an extension of the father?”
Source: DUNE
“What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.”
Source: Just Kids
“What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?”
“What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short.”
“What is the sound of one hand?”
Source: The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin: A Translation of the Sokko-roku Kaien-fusetsu
“What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?”
“What is the soup kitchen?”
“What is the source of Character Assassination?
Jealousy. Jealousy originates from Limitation. A jealous person sees you as having a gift, skill, charisma, talent, or ability that he or she does not have. The mindset of a jealous person is manipulation. How does a Jealous Person manipulate? A Jealous Person controls a group's perception of you, the Gifted Person, by possessing a group's opinion by claiming you are full of fault.”
“What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.”
“What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?”
“What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.”
“What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.”
Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology
“What is the speed breaker (speed bump) on the road for? It is for your safety. Therefore, these difficulties that come on your path are for your benefit. If these obstructions are not there, people will speed through without stopping and cause accident. These obstructions are there to keep one within normality.”
Source: Adjust Everywhere
“What is the spirituality we need for the 21st century? We face a choice: to retire from this fray into some marshmallow paradise where we can massage away the heat of the day, the questions of the time, the injustice of the age, and live like pious moles in the heart of a twisted world. Or, we can gather our strength - our spiritual strength - for the struggle it will take to wake up from this pious sleep.”
“What is the state of the antahkaran (inner complex of mind, intellect, chit and ego) of mhts of the Akram path? Meddling has stopped for them, but when effects of the past karmas unfold, they become confused that, ‘these are my effects’. Whereas, when they ask ‘us’, ‘Are they our effects or someone else’s?’ I will tell them, ‘Theses are someone else’s effects.”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets. "What is it they think we will do? Turn 'em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?”
“What is the strongest cure?--Victory.”
“What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?”
“What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?”
Source: Osler's
“What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.”