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‘Churchill once said that if you have enemies it indicates that you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.’
A good scientist has to be a philosopher and a good philosopher must also be a scientist.’
I agree, I have no evidence, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.’
‘That’s like asking—where exactly is the information that I access on the internet stored?’ shot back the monk. ‘All the information that you could possibly want is out there on the internet but you need to know how to search for it. It’s the same with the Akashic Records. Everyone has access to the records, but some people know how to search better.’
‘The 10th of January 5114 BCE, at 12:30 p.m.,’ declared Brahmananda.
‘Mythology is a set of lies that people rarely believe,’
‘A set of lies that people have agreed to believe.’
‘Sometimes, what one is searching for is actually hiding in plain sight.’
There could only be one hegemon in the world at any given time.
Harvey’s facility was known as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO.
He recalled reading somewhere that love was not about finding someone you could live with. Rather, it was about finding someone you couldn’t live without.
‘Hopefully, we’ll extract more out of it than we put into it,’
There’s a touch of belief within every doubter and a touch of doubt within every believer.
‘Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake,’
Reformers want Islam to accept homosexuality, adultery, equality of women, freedom of speech, blasphemy, and separation of religion and state. Our greatest danger lies in these reformist tendencies.’
But the later verses are the sword verses.
This dichotomy seems to suit terrorists fine and they take full advantage of it.
It was a technique by which non-celibates such as King Suchandara could work towards becoming Bodhisattvas.
They covered areas such as gestation and birth, functions of the human body and the four commonly observed states of mind—awake, dreaming, asleep and orgasmic.
As it is outside, so it is within the body.
‘Even what is called matter is actually energy programmed to behave like matter,’
‘The sages were concerned with perception, not experimentation,’
Yojananam sahastra dwe dwe shate dwe cha yojane aken nimishardhena krammana namostute. With deep respect, I bow to the sun that travels 2,202 yojanas in half a nimesha.
‘Never discount the value of perception!’
‘Because we have found that the only way to maintain integrity of research is by preventing cross-contamination of ideas,’
‘Akashic Records are a compilation of all human experiences, actions, reflections, intentions, feelings, thoughts and words ever to have happened anywhere and everywhere in the universe,’
When we look at the sun, we are actually looking at the sun as it had existed eight minutes ago because that’s the time it takes light to travel from the sun to Earth.
‘A distant event that happens at a particular instant for one observer may happen earlier or later for another observer depending on the time that light takes to travel to the observer. Something seen at time “t” by one observer may be seen at “3t” by another.
‘Think of a wall that is entirely unlit,’ said Brahmananda. ‘The wall has hundreds of photographs pasted on it, but you can’t see any of them because it is totally dark.’
‘Now imagine that you have a flashlight in your hand,’ said Brahmananda. ‘The flashlight has a beam that can illuminate only one photograph at a time. You shine it on the wall and you see one of the photographs.’
‘You are an expert at twisting the facts to suit your narrative. That’s what needs to stop immediately.’
They know that an effective army is not one which questions why. It is one that simply obeys commands.
‘Roopkund is locally known as Skeleton Lake,’ said Mikhailov. ‘Whenever the snow melts, hundreds of human skeletons become visible at the bottom.’
They were so powerful that they brought down a heavy hailstorm on the heads on the disrespectful revellers, thereby crushing the skulls of the men in Raja Jasdhaval’s entourage.’
‘The Schumann Resonance is the heartbeat of the earth,’
‘It alludes to the fact that the deep meditation of Indian sages to experience oneness was the same connectivity that quantum physicists were trying to prove.
‘It’s the pinecone shaped gland which is often called the third eye.
The objective was to drive semen upwards in the Kundalini.
‘There have also been a few instances of sexual exploitation that have given tantra and Tantric Buddhism a bad name. But it’s a case of a rotten apple spoiling the rest of the bushel.’
‘It’s an acronym for Sound Surveillance System,’ said Petrov.
‘Money does strange things to people,’
‘If it is not brought to my attention, how can I decide its relevance?
I suppose history and politics are stories that have multiple endings. People choose whichever ending works better for their sensibilities.
The novelist, George Santayana, had famously said that history is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren’t there. So where lies the ultimate truth?
Western forces would continue gunning down terrorists, but how would they ever liquidate the ideology that spawned them?
He told her that Milesian was a laboratory for killing world leaders with the aim of accelerating a world conflict with Muslims;
You see, thousands of years ago, the earth’s gravitational pull was far greater than what it currently is. The consequence was that time ran slower.
‘Any religion can act like a medicine in small doses but can also act like a poison at higher doses.
There is neither creation nor destruction. Only appearance, disappearance and reappearance.’
They are symbolic of method and wisdom.