Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami Quotes

When the teacher, the spiritual master, is praying for the mercy of the Lord to enlighten the student, then by the blessings of the Lord the student gets the blessing of knowledge.

Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami

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• John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

  

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• To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.

  

  Gail Carriger
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• 'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
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• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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• We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

  

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• Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
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• When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
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• I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
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• 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

  

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• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
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• Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.

  

  Alan Kay
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• Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

  

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• Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.

  

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• You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

  

  Alanna Ubach
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• Knowledge is true opinion.

  

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• To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

  

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• I had a really fantastic time shooting 'Bad Teacher.' I loved every second of it.

  

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• What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you, since that is already enlightened, and has no need to seek. No, it is the ego in you that brings you to a teacher.

  

  Ken Wilber
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• In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

  

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• Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.

  

  Donald Sutherland
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• When the teacher, the spiritual master, is praying for the mercy of the Lord to enlighten the student, then by the blessings of the Lord the student gets the blessing of knowledge.

  

  Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami
  • Knowledge
  • Teacher
  • Student