27 quotes found
“As you look up to see the stars,keep watching the ground with your feet.”
“Earth" is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.”
“Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.”
“Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.”
“Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.”
“Unconditional love should not be presumed to be without ardent expectations as also the inevitable disappointment.”
“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 wor...”
“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.”
“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 hor...”
“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.”
“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 t...”
“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 a...”
“What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.”
“Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God to b...”
“When water is being filled in a pot, the sound we hear is a function of the pot, not of the water. Same water makes different sounds in different pots. Each of us, described in Sanskrit as Ghata, m...”
“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 servin...”
“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.”
“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...”
“Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest!”
“Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.”
“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 stree...”
