“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion- and even nation-centred cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability, and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood, where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God, in the ancient language).”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Gandhi actually said everything and it's opposite.
To cherry pickers, he offers such a bewildering variety of cherries that you have to wonder if there was something the matter with the tree.”
― The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
To cherry pickers, he offers such a bewildering variety of cherries that you have to wonder if there was something the matter with the tree.”
― The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“I would rather
have a body full of scars
and a head full of memories
than a life
of regrets
and perfect skin.”
― Love Her Wild
have a body full of scars
and a head full of memories
than a life
of regrets
and perfect skin.”
― Love Her Wild
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