“Within infinite myths lies the eternal truth
Who sees it all?
Varuna has but a thousand eyes,
Indra has a hundred,
You and I, only two.”
― Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology
Who sees it all?
Varuna has but a thousand eyes,
Indra has a hundred,
You and I, only two.”
― Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology
“And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
― Strenuous Life
― Strenuous Life
“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”
― Self-Consciousness
― Self-Consciousness
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