“Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been matched by artistry, intelligence, and comparatively moderated greed. No doubt about it, if style were the one gauge, Chicago would be among the greatest of all the cities of the world.” IfsWorldSeemsWould BeCitiesDoubtCenturyStyleGreedArchitectureTechniqueContemporaryNo DoubtChicagoTwentieth CenturyArtistryDowntownMatchedAll The BestGauges Book:Locations Source: Locations
“Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Babaji revealed to Lahiri Mahasaya: “The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.” WorldGivingWritingAgeLostChristDarkKnownCenturyYogaAncientTechniqueDiscipleRevivalDark AgesKrishnaNineteenth CenturyArjuna Author:Lahiri Mahasaya
“So Ayurveda is a bunch of techniques and theories and practices that have been accumulated over many centuries in a way that we think about Ayurveda. But the Ayurvidya is the Shakti that has inspired the development of Ayurveda. It's inspiring the spread of Ayurveda into many other countries. And has to posses an individual before that individual can actually act as a vehicle for healing energy to move into the world.” ThinkingWorldWayHas BeensCountryMovingIndividualEnergyHealingPracticeCenturyTheoryDevelopmentInspiredSpreadTechniqueBunchVehicleOther CountriesEnergy HealingPosseAyurvedaTheory And PracticeShakti Author:Robert Svoboda
“University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover truth, codify it through techniques of scholarship, and then teach it. Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization not just download data into student skulls.” ReasonExistenceTeachEconomyCenturyInformationStudentsCivilizationInstitutionsUniversityProfitTechniqueDataEntityScholarshipSkullsTorchesDownloads Author:Bruce Sterling