There's no such thing as forever.
There’s a dark feeling—less than hatred, but more than loathing—that ugly men feel for handsome men. It’s unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it’s always there, hiding in the long shadow thro...
There’s no patience as pure as the patience we spend on loved ones, who make things harder than they need to be.
They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.
They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed.
They couldn't understand that every time I entered the slum I felt the urge to let go and surrender to a simpler, poorer life that was yet richer in respect, and love, and a vicinal connectedness to t...
They make a religion of being greedy.
Time, too, will die, just as we do, when the universe dies, and is born again. Time’s a living thing, just as we are, with birth, longevity, and extinction. Time has a heartbeat, but it isn’t ours, no...
Tomorrow,’ she said, ‘when you go to Prabaker’s village, try to relax completely, and go with the experience. Just … let yourself go. Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.
Twierdzę, że rzeczywistość, taka, jaką znamy, jaką zna ogół, to nic więcej niż iluzja. Za tym, co widzimy oczami, istnieje inna rzeczywistość. Trzeba ją rozpoznać sercem. Nie ma innego sposobu.
Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You
We are made out of stars, you and I.
We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.
Well,’ I laughed, ‘I certainly don’t know God, and frankly I’m inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I’ve come across.’ ‘Oh, of course, natur...
We’d saved him as much by joining in his exultation as we had by witnessing his shame. And all of it depended upon our action, our interference in his life, because no man is saved without love.
What I am saying is that reality—as you see it, and as most people see it—is nothing more than an illusion. There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into t...
What I do know now, and didn’t know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we’ve done have run their course,...
What comes from the earth always returns. What flourishes, dies away to bloom again.
What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
Whatever the reason, I felt dishearteningly alone in the city. I'd lost Prakabar and Abdullah, my closest friends, in the same week, and with them I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says You Ar...
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