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Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. (152) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#compassion #devotion #inspiration #intellectual #knowledge

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#am #blank #blank slate #creative #god

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#behaviour #camera #damn #does #filming

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#be true #cowardly #friends #great #hearted

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#best #blessed #faults #friend #human

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. ↗

— Hugh Kingsmill

#alike #alive #assumption #based #everyone

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#big #big guy #control #dump #everything

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#between #border #chipping #come #cultures

I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#control #eyes #gives #i #i love

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform. ↗

— Jack Kingston

#democrats #i #i think #ideas #important