

“The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.”
― Cosmos
It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.”
― Cosmos

“Nothing in life is ever wasted, especially steps taken towards truth.”
― Meditation: The First and Last Freedom
― Meditation: The First and Last Freedom

“Our sensitive egos turn personal opinions into what we often mistakenly call “facts,” but they aren’t factual at all; just comforting.”
― Faithfully Religionless
― Faithfully Religionless

“Transparency is therefore more than an esthetic triumph; it is a victory that will be reflected in lower costs throughout the software’s life cycle. 6.2.2”
― Art of UNIX Programming, The
― Art of UNIX Programming, The

“The popular view that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.”
― Murder in Mesopotamia
― Murder in Mesopotamia
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