#ena

It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the gravity of inertia, apathy and laziness, (known in Sankrit as the quality of tapas) that overwhelms this age. Despite this seemingly gloomy prognosis, there is a way out of this predicament for those with the will and stamina to awaken from the rampant lethargy, within and outside of themselves, to take action. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#left-hand-path #religion #strength #tantra #zeena-schreck

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#airplane #any #artists #atom #atom bomb

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#attentive #give #his #laws #like

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#clean up #common #common ground #ground #politics

Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset. ↗

— Aishwarya Rai

#asset #being #considered #crop #faces

Creativity is the catalyst to the future. ↗

— Ann Marie Frohoff

#coming-of-age #music #music-lyrics #romance #teen

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact. ↗

— John Rawls

#citizens #criterion #enact #ideally #legislators

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. ↗

— Harry Reid

#common #common ground #compromise #even #extremists

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. ↗

— Janet Reno

#ask #concluded #could #death #death penalty

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. ↗

— Tom Ridge

#each #empower #empowered #enable #extension