When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.
When happiness rides on the wings of art, it transcends time.
The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius: Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.
When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.
Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing
Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of illusion and reality, trees and forests can o...
As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.
Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.
My Ten Commandments: 1. God is a verb, not a noun. 2. Prayers are important only if they lead to corresponding actions. 3. Creation is an art. Science provides the tools for the artist. Anybody with the tools is not necessarily an artist. 4. Religion...
What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.
Darkness is perhaps the only reality, the only truth, both of which have only one property; they are eternal. What we call light is a mere temporary absence of darkness, untruth, a mere temporary absence of truth. Vedas point to this absence by neti,...
If I do not agree with something or do not like something, it will be wrong to presume that I hate it. Presuming disagreement or dislike to be the same as hatred is stifling engagement. Disengagement leads to otherness, which leads to fear, which in ...
Earth" is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.
As you look up to see the stars,keep watching the ground with your feet.
Of all creatures on earth, in proportion to their size and weight, humans have the smallest footprint on the ground and the largest on the environment.
Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.
In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.
Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has become a goal serving the ends of a priest or a demagogue and rest of the...
Wind is on fire" - beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have the same relationship with each other!
One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.
