Rajesh

“We’ve been brought up to act fast, to assume that we know everything immediately and to ignore the fact that consciousness is made up of layers, and it’s the lower strata that might contain the richest, most faithful material.”
― Alain de Botton, A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life

“Long after the firefly had disappeared, the trail of its light remained inside me, its pale, faint glow hovering on and on in the thick darkness behind my eyelids like a lost soul. More than once I tried stretching my hand out in that darkness. My fingers touched nothing. The faint glow remained, just beyond their grasp.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Where in our upbringing, our schooling, our career are we explicitly taught to value, to enjoy, even to love the plateau, the long stretch of diligent effort with no seeming progress?”
― George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

“The world has enough for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Salman Khan, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education