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“Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).”

Soul Self Spiritual Prayer Spiritual Quotes Liberation Moksha Worldly Life Atma Moksh Bowing Down

Author:Dada Bhagwan

“Also intriguing was all the bowing. The association of height and status did not, of course, faze him. If anything, it made the Japanese seem noble. But where were the ones who made themselves big? That was the question. With so many people bowing down, it seemed to Majnoun like a competition amongst the low to see who could be lowest. In which case, discretion was strength, a paradox that Majnoun found almost as compelling as the film's relative absence of dogs.”

Japan Films Bowing Bowing Down

Book:Fifteen Dogs

Source: Fifteen Dogs

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

Life Inspirational Children Doe Philosophy Wisdom Inspiration Spiritual Faith Spirituality Laughing Cry Greatness Christian Inspirational Bows Bowing Down

Book:Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

Source: Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran

“Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.”

People Hate Millions Atheism Hundred Positive Atheism Flesh Catholicism Elderly Roman Catholic Bowing Down

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.”

“A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.”

Littles Light Past Race Courage Authority Fellows Brave Silent Charity Devotion Looking Forward Ripe Bowing Down Looking Forward To The Future

Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”

Happiness Success Fear Women Ignorance Perseverance Bows Black Women Whim Black Motivational Bowing Down

Author:Bell Hooks

“Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.”

Ideas Prayer Roots Gods Will Ritual Submission Bowing Down

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.”

Feels Persons Doe Humility Higher Safe Independence Painful Associates Companionship Rebellious Exalted Bowing Down

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.”

Prayer Attitude Subjects Kings Worship Fundamentals Supreme Bent Prostration Bowing Down

Author:G. Campbell Morgan

“Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.”

Firsts God Steps Fool Noses First Steps Thumbs Bowing Down

Author:Solomon

“I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace-just as I am.”

Looks Done Earth Christ Grace Seeing Gratitude Praise Using Me Bowing Down

Author:Billy Graham

“Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.”

Source: The plague: translated from the French