“Look with the eyes of love and you will find beauty everywhere.”
“To truly love another human being is the most difficult thing in this world.”
“Paraphrasing Keats, ‘Love is truth, truth love; that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.'”
“Only they can love truly who do not ask to be loved in return.”
“Love does not need to possess.”
“Love leaves its mark.”
“To love is to throw caution to the winds.”
“Everyone falls in love with a woman or a man. Hardly anyone falls in love with the Truth.”
“Surrendering of the ego is love.”
“Paraphrasing Vivekananda, ‘Everything can be sacrificed for the sake of love, but love cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.’.”
“Those who cannot be lost in love cannot find the truth.”
“The ignorant self has feelings and emotions. The enlightened self has only compassion.”
“Life is pointless with no set purpose. Hence, I cannot take it seriously, so I am withdrawing from active social interactions except for those that are work-related. So, visit, WhatsApp, or call me only if it is unavoidable.”
“What is a festival and celebration for one species is a nightmare and hell for another species.”
“Everyone understands the Truth in their own sweet time.”
“Different minds are experiencing different worlds.”
“Truth is the realm of stillness where no thought stirs.”
“A mind that no longer craves for experiences is ready to apprehend the Truth.”
“Are you the thinker? If you are not the thinker, how can you be the doer?”
“Enlightenment is the mind realizing its servitude to a higher reality.”
“Only an empty and unoccupied mind can discern the Truth.”
“‘Being nobody, Doing nothing, Going nowhere’ is an art difficult to master.”
“The thoughts you get correspond to your level of understanding of life.”
“Realizing you are not the doer is a real game-changer.”
“How does it matter if the world is destroyed the next minute? It does not matter.”
“The physical world, and hence the natural sciences like biology, physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy etc., do not interest me at all. All that interests me is social sciences, humanities, and spirituality, so in a sense, anything to do with the mental and metaphysical realms.”
“Life tests you at every turn. And, I have failed many a time.”
“Truth is complex. Love is complex. They both elude my understanding.”
“To the dying man it hardly matters whether it is a Muslim or a Hindu, a Brit or an Indian, who has thrust the dagger.”
“To be able to discriminate between momentary pleasures and lasting happiness and prefer the latter is a sign of wisdom.”
“Since the world could have been otherwise, whatever knowledge we gather about this world and its inhabitants is worth just a tuppence.”
“Wisdom can not be excavated from books. It has to be unearthed from within.”
“Social sciences are more or less a commentary on why we do not follow the dictum ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’, what the consequences of that are, and how we can get to do that.”
“Even the ego is an imagined entity.”
“The ennui is annoying.”
“There will never come a time in this world when we can make do without a lawyer, the policeman and the military.”
“The compassion of a doctor cannot exist without the suffering of a patient.”
“All these so-called racism, bigotry, casteism, sexism, and what have you, is all part of the drama of human life, and we cannot wish it away any more than we can wish away the night. It is the lot of all of us to be caught betwixt the opposites as we sunbathe in this duality of light and darkness, with the only consolation that none of it is real, because only Nonduality is the truth and duality a mere illusion, so why be perplexed or flummoxed by it. Just greet every such thing with a cheer, just as we greet both day and night with equal cheer, knowing that everything is God’s leela and everything, and yes even the objectionable things, have a rightful place in this universe because without them Kurukshetras cannot happen, and even the Kshatriya needs to play his role from time to time lest he feel useless.”
“He who understands life fully cannot but be melancholic.”
“I’m tired of life.”
“I am sick and tired of life not physically or mentally or emotionally but existentially.”
“If a mind thinks that the thoughts are arising of its own accord and sweet will, it is as laughable as if a river were to think it is flowing of its own accord and sweet will.”
“If a mind thinks that the thoughts are arising of its own accord and sweet will, it is as laughable as if a river were to think it is flowing of its own accord and sweet will.”
“Dreams and desires arise due to ignorance that the body and mind are the ego-I. But, the ego-I is just an illusory thought-feeling generated by the mind that it is the agent of thoughts and actions of that body-mind complex. As Ramana Maharshi put it, ‘He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer [and enjoyer]’.”
“If God offered to humanity asexual method of reproduction, there would hardly be any takers.”
“Most todays are a recycling.”
“Civilizations would collapse if we do not know the art of telling lies.”
“This truth is lost on some people that sex is not a four-letter word.”
“The desire for a companion is the root of all mischief.”
“The fate of every great soul is to walk alone almost always.”
“Your words will not be received by every ear and sometimes not even by those of friends.”
“Friendship is more innocent and pure than love.”
“Not every hand that is extended in friendship gets shaken by the other.”
“The heart that can get hurt is an impure heart.”
“To realize that there is no purpose to life other than to let it unfold as it is meant to by understanding and realizing one is not the thinker-doer, is enlightenment.”
“Aren’t we the experiencer and knower and not what is experienced and known?” “Taking no interest in what is, what was, and what will be, is the door to liberation.”
Know Thyself 