Who am I to say that small joys are less valuable than a passion which shatters your life?
When your heart is crusted over with your own pain, it is easy to feel little for others.
When you begin to weave your own desires into your vision, the true seeing is taken from you.
This was my first lesson on the nature of love: that in a moment it could fulfil the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years.
The pleasures that arise from sense-objects are bound to end, and thus they are only sources of pain. Don’t get attached to them.
The fates are cruel, Bheeshma whispered, and they’ve been crueler than usual to you. But the sins you committed in ignorance are not your fault. I’ll still have to pay for them, Karna said. Isn’t that...
That’s how love stops us when it might be healthier to speak out, to not let frustration and rage build up until it explodes.
Such rulers were adored by the citizens they protected, but often their families had to bear the brunt of sacrifice.
Such is the ancient law of the universe. Of karma and its fruit. The idea of motive is irrelevant to it.
So this, too, was true of love: it could make us forget our own needs. It could make us strong even when the world was collapsing around us.
She did understand about sacrificing values for the sake of love. It was a lesson all mothers had to memorize.
Rakhi likes the comfortable clutter of her life, the things she loves gathered around her like a shawl against the winterliness of the world.
Pain makes us crazy. All we want is to throw the live coal of it as far from us as we can, not thinking what we might set afire.
Love was full of contradictions. Sometimes the person you loved weakened you and sometimes he or she made you a stronger person.
Just as you've deceived me, so will your mind deceive you. When you need the Brahmastra the most, you'll forget the mantra needed to call it up.
I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn’t mean giving in. It didn’t mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligentl...
I have to believe in possibility. How else can we bear the enormous weight of life?
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
He told me that visions of all he needed to write came to him at the oddest moments, forcing him to abandon other activities and write them down.
Even if we love them with our entire being, even if we’re willing to commit the most heinous sin for their well-being. We must understand and respect the values that drive them. We must want what they...