S Shah

“A man is above all his will”
― Swami Prabhavananda

“He cannot be heard of.
Out of doubt he is
transported”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“To darkness are they doomed who worship only the body, and to greater darkness they who worship only the spirit.”
― Swami Prabhavananda, The Upanishads

“Art is such an action. It is a kindred form of action to idealism. They are both expressions of the same drive, and the man who fails to fulfill this urge in one form or another is as guilty of escapism as the one who fails to occupy himself with the satisfaction of bodily needs. In fact, the man who spends his entire life turning the wheels of industry so that he has neither time nor energy to occupy himself with any other needs of his human organism is by far a greater escapist than the one who developed his art. For the man who develops his art does make adjustments to his physical needs. He understands that man must have bread to live, while the other cannot understand that you cannot live by bread alone.”
― Mark Rothko, The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art