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“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.”
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“Until our mind is withdrawn from the varied distractions and agitations of worldly affairs, we cannot enter into the spirit of higher religious study.”
― The Upanishads
― The Upanishads
“The Uses Of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Thirst
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
― Thirst
“I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”
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I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again”
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“Fire is His head, the sun and moon His eyes, space His ears, the Vedas His speech, the wind His breath, the universe His heart. From His feet the Earth has originated. Verily, He is the inner self of all beings.”
― The Upanishads
― The Upanishads
South Asian Literature
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For readers around the world interested in literature from or about South Asia! Countries of interest include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhut ...more
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