Rajiv Bhattacharya

“Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
― Thomas Otway

“Contrary to what I might like to think,my life is not guided by reason;it is ruled rather by the inertia of habitual motion.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready... The teacher will Disappear.”
― Tao Te Ching