To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.
In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!
When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you
Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.
Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter’s home.
Love? I need a lot of love. " Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are hungry; it's OK to make a fuss and say, 'I'm so sleepy', if you are tired; but somehow we cannot say, 'I need some more love. ' Why can't we say it? It's just as basic a need. " - ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 36 pages 293-4
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
When we shift from negatively complaining to positively affirming, conditions change. Then complaining is no longer the operative law in our life-freedom is.
He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.
I support people if they are called to be active and protesting, resisting, working for restoration or, for more just political conversation. I also support everyone in listening to each other. We're at a very interesting and disturbing time in terms of our civil discourse. And yet always, in disturbance, things are shook up and that shaking can lead to deeper maturity and a deeper discourse. May it be so.
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.