Saroj Kumar Biswal

“I'm convinced that this anxiety running through my life is the tension between what I "should be" and what i am. My anxiety doesn't come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it. It seems to begin whenever I smuggle into my mind an expectation about how I or others should be. It is the tension between my desire to control the world and the recognition that I can't. "I will be what I will be" - where is the anxiety in that ? Anxiety is the recognition that I might not reach the rung on the opinion ladder I have just set for my self. I fear death most when I am about to exceed what I believe others think of me; then death threatens to cut me off from myself, because "myself" is not yet.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“I sometimes wonder if the "dead" are not more present, more comfort, more here than most of the living.”
― Hugh Prather, Notes to Myself

“I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….”
― Sharon Creech

“I live from one tentative conclusion to the next, thinking each one is final. The only thing i know for sure is that I'am confused.”
― Hugh Prather