I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
-Edith Södergran
Religious gurus are managing their businesses by misleading the world, but
it is a smaller crime. Their greater crime is; not only are they suppressing the
qualities and philosophies of great people, but are also running their businesses
by linking them to useless miracles.
-Deep Trivedi
Even as a mirror reflects an object held close to it, one’s behavior reflects as the ego-sense in one’s consciousness. But if held at a distance, ego-sense does not arise.
Only that, which cannot be separated from you even after death is yours; and
that cannot be anything other than your "self-contentment".
-Deep Trivedi
Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.
-Scarlett Thomas
As long as you have attachment to the body and attachment to objects, fear and suffering will be with you. Therefore Krishna told Arjuna to develop his discrimination and rid himself of body consciousness. Only then he would be able to develop integral vision.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden
I think I’m an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy; those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.