Radhanath Swami Quotes

We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

Radhanath Swami

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• Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Food
  • Single
  • Environmental

• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Food
  • Kitchen

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Energy
  • Change

• It's not only about the material things - I also have a spiritual side.

  

  Maluma
  • Spiritual
  • Material Things

• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Talent

• My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dad
  • Delicate

• Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Ideas
  • Spiritual

• The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner - it required a leap of faith, and I felt curious about that phenomenon.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Faith
  • Food
  • Curious

• Food can change anything.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Food
  • Change
  • Anything

• You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Food
  • Hug

• The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Band
  • Best

• I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Real
  • Home

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Food
  • Human
  • Sharing

• If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Fall
  • Acting
  • Back

• But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were somehow representative of Japan - which was, well, not what I was after. Similarly, with After Life, I deliberately set out to make a movie that was unlike what I imagined the foreign conception of Japan to be, and I figured non-Japanese wouldn't find it interesting at all.

  

  Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Interesting
  • Directors
  • Critics

• I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Comfort
  • Preppy
  • Sweats

• If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Song
  • Taken
  • Gold

• We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Food
  • Wisdom
  • Spiritual