Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami Quotes
The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.
Quotes to Explore
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Act your part with honor.
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I believe in the gospel of Good Living. You cannot make any god happy by fasting. Let us have good food, and let us have it well cooked — and it is a thousand times better to know how to cook than it is to understand any theology in the world.
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I think we're the shortest relay team in history but we're fast.
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One should respect a defeated opponent!
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I never fit in with straight country. I never really fit in with rock n' roll. I've always been somewhere in between all this stuff.
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Anger is never without an Argument, but seldom with a good one.
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I'm going to live forever, or die trying !
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Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.
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The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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As soon as Gen. Clark has confirmed this withdrawal has begun, I intend to instruct him to suspend NATO air operations.
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A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
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Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death. The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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The Gospel of Thomas, greatly favored in some circles, is ignored by archaeologists, primarily because it exhibits no verisimilitude. It tells us nothing about the historical Jesus and the world he and his disciples lived in. I've heard it said, that if all we had was the Gospel of Thomas, would we even know that Jesus was Jewish?
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Religion is the love of life in the consciousness of impotence.
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When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved - we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
