Animals that escape go from the known into the unknown - and if there is one thing an animal hates above all else, it is the unknown. Escaping animals usually hind in the very first place they find th...
بالنسبة إلى كل الحيوانات، بما فيها الإنسان، التحديق هو سلوك عدائي.
Communion with God in the middle of bags of flour
Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Why...
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God beca...
What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.
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 or debited depending on our actions.
Ravi was right. Truly I was to be the next goat. I had a wet, trembling, half-drowned, heaving and coughing three-year-old adult Bengal tiger in my lifeboat. Richard Parker rose unsteadily to his feet...
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
Le dije que me gustaba la comida picante. No sé por qué tuve que afirmar semejante idiotez si es mentira. Voy poniendo cucharada tras cucharada de yogur en la comida. No hay nada que hacer. Cada vez m...
It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, acolour canvas of supernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me.
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
Except that now, for having accused Ravi of an unspecified crime he hadn't committed, I was as good as dead. In years subsequent, when he was in the mood to terrorize me, he would whisper to me, Just...
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Many people seem to lose God along life’s way.
For, of course, with all animals, including us, to stare is an aggressive act.