Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
Why, Islam is nothing but an easy sort of exercise, I thought. Hot-weather yoga for the Bedouins. Arenas without sweat, heaven without strain,
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
Time became distance for me in the way it is for all mortals
The world isn’t just the way it is. It’s how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I have seen that smile with my own eyes. I am not one give...
The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in th...
Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch doesn’t work properly, it must be fixed here and now by us.
Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.
If you become sick yourself, don’t waste your vomit by sending it overboard. Vomit makes an excellent border guard. Puke on the edges of your territory.
I went to temple at crowded times when Brahmins were too distracted to come between me and God.
I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools.
I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I have to turn miracle into routine.
Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy.
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me...