#krishna

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#nationalism #life

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. ↗

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#krishna #life #palace-of-illusions #panchaali #seriousness

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#krishnamurti #self #life

Arbeta inte med tanke på belöning. Låt uppgiften i sig vara din motivation, inte resultatet. Låt varken girighet eller lathet styra dig och var lika oberörd i din framgång som i misslyckande. Detta är jämnmod. Detta är att handla utan att vara bunden. ↗

— Eva Bladh

#motivational

Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised ↗

— U.G. Krishnamurti

#u-g-krishnamurti #life

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#also #am #aunts #cousins #daughter

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come. ↗

— Ravi Shankar

#ambition #animation #chances #come #deep

Do you know my attitude? Books, scriptures, and things like that only point out the way to reach God. After finding the way, what more need is there of books and scriptures? Then comes the time for action. ↗

— Sri Ramakrishna

#quotes-of-ramakrishna #ramakrishna-paramhansa #attitude

Do you know which is the greatest epic till date? ↗

— K. Hari Kumar

#chennai #epic #ghittorni #hindu #india