Epigrams I

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000

RAMANAM
In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

What I am is what is wanted. What I do is part of what I am. Therefore what I do is what is wanted.

 

Western Civilization is a species of Vedic Culture, of Indian Spirituality.

 

There is no one who owns the house they live in.

 

Jesus — His original name was Isa — spent His Career more in India than in Palestine.

 

Laborare est Orare

Latin Proverb

 

Ora et Labora

St. Benedict of Nursia

 

Duty is God – Work is Worship

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Consciousness is Truth.
Truth is Bliss.
Supreme Reality is Truth-Consciousness-Bliss

Sath-Chith-Ananda

 

No given is a member of a single-member set.

 

Truth is not asymptotic. It cannot be measured by a standard external to Itself.

 

There is no standard … no anything … external to Truth by means of which Truth can be measured.

 

Everything nameable is incomparable.

 

God is Selflessness.
Self is Godlessness.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

All time fields are concurrent.

 

Attachment brings grief.
Detachment brings joy.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

The Truth belongs to the pure in heart.

 

It is good to be born in the Church but not to die in it. One must travel beyond all boundaries of reason and the mind and emerge in the Absolute.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

A thing and its nature is one and the same.

 

Christianity is based on the Seers of Buddhism. Islam is based on the Prophets of Christianity.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

The Word is The Beginning.
Brahma Kavi.
God is the Poet.
The Poet is God.

 

India is the spiritual heart of this planet,

 

The Good News of the First Christian Millennium was that our world is teleological rather than capricious.

The Good News of the Second Christian Millennium was that the treasure we need we already have.

The Good News of the Third Christian Millennium is that our point of view does not matter.

 

Nature is not only binary. The Universe is reasonable to some extent.

 

Every creature’s body is a costume that God wears.

Francesca Graham

 

Every substance is a resource. Every subsistence is essence.

 

L’audace l’audace, toujours l’audace.

Frederick the Great

 

We are sons and daughters of Immortality. Let us not be common.

 

To reduce degradation of the environment, electrify.  Electro-chemical generation and transmission is the bionic and the economic ideal.

 

Art is artists not works. Religion is persons not ideas.

 

Human beings are capable heirs to the counsel of perfection.

 

There is a God and He’s a gag writer.

Blake Edwards

 

Slow and steady wins the race.

Ancient Proverb

 

Religionless Christianity (Religionsloses Christentum, Dietrich Bonhoeffer) means religion without clergy: life connected to life directly.

 

The purpose of Art is to give people pleasure by reminding them who they are.

 

The Orthodox Tradition, outside of which there is no Salvation, is wider than the orthodox take it and narrower than the heterodox take it.

 

E calculated as mc2 is a fraction of the E that exists for any values of m and c.

 

Among geniuses, there is neither race nor era.

 

What we grasp flees and what we release comes.

 

All effects are indeterminate. There is no isolated system.

 

No child of finitude can use the genitive case and expect to be taken seriously.

 

Revelation can be received only in the presence of salvation.

 

Saluto ergo video.

 

The Sacraments of the Church are effective in the presence of an existential transformation which they can foster but cannot produce.

 

All is Number

Mantra of Pythagoras

 

Eadem Mutata Resurgo.
Though Changèd I Rise Again The Same.

Jakob Bernoulli

 

Remember me to whoever rides by.

 

Rocks are devoured by water, grasses by elephants, antelopes by lions, chipmunks by eagles, and humans by Time. Everything is food for something.

Sathya Sai Baba

 

Every finger points, correctly, at oneself.

 

There are no secrets.

 

The world come of age (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) means the world grown up, knit together according to its genome as one system, connected, in communication, its synapses finally fully developed and working. In other words, the world awake.

 

Laws are for criminals.
Rules are for impure hearts.

 

To not accept what a person says is one thing. To assert that they cannot say it, or to command them not to, is quite another.

 

There are no symbols, only Leelas.

 

A play is as good as its script.

 

Ecumenism begins in faction and ends in silence.

 

The Church is not necessary for Salvation.

 

The argument that humanity belongs to a government collapsed with the Soviet Union. The argument that there are no restraints on self-aggrandizement collapsed with it.

 

Ideals ought to be practiced.

Traditional Franciscan Proverb

 

Who is right and who is wrong is not an matter of majority rule. Dharma is universal and constant.

 

An educated person is one who has developed the habit of study.

 

Everyone knows what is right and what is wrong. The challenge is not knowing the Truth but doing it. All have moral knowledge. Few have courage to practice it.

 

Between right and wrong only wrong thinks there is a contest.

 

Predestination means that something happened before you did.

 

Today we have more than we need but not what is needed.

 

The purpose of life is to laugh, to dance and to sing.

Vedas

 

The living, the process itself, is the Goal.

 

Idealism is evidence of Divine Presence in the heart.

 

The verbal is the base of the visual.

 

All problems are susceptible to theological analysis, and all analyses are theological in nature.

 

This is the place that the time to come has gone to.

 

Fools leave money.
Knaves leave debts.
Saints leave nothing.

 

Technology changes, but the affairs of life remain always personal.

Βασιλεία του Θεού
Kingdom of God

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA

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