Aaron R.

“Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life,
and Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society.
But the only one to blame is oneself.
That's the helpful thing about the Indian idea of karma.
Your fate is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“to justify their own spilling of ink
they spell the day as night”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims

“When death comes and whispers to me
'Thy days are ended.'
let me say to him, 'I have lived in love
and not in mere time.'
He will ask 'Will thy songs remain?'
I shall say 'I know not, but this I know
that often when I sang I found my eternity.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“True empathy, if it exists at all, should be a silent, selfless act, a connection forged without fanfare or self-congratulation. But more often than not, empathy becomes a performance, a display of moral superiority that serves only to inflate the ego of the empathizer.”
― Lord Ian Edge