The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You make spiritual advancement just by eating it.
Christmas is the one day of the year when it's most obvious someone's missing. It had to become less about the presents.
The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.
I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.
In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice. . . that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on. . . It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.
I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.
Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.
Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.
Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.
When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.