“The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness.” WorldMindLittlesLongHardWholeNightRealizingMorningObjectsReturnSolitudeRootsSightFruitHearingGoing AwayWorldlyMeditatingAloofBrahmanWorldliness Author:Ramakrishna
“Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.” LongWholeCommunityRootsRapHispanic Author:Archie Shepp
“You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.” PeopleNeedsLongCertainLaughingCreativeRootsOriginalsArtisticFunniness Author:Jason Gann
“I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.” TryingLongEnoughGivenWomenMysteryRootsMereSquaresQuantityIntroductionGiven UpSquare Roots Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book) Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)