As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”. As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and … Continue reading Self Love
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.-Arthur Schopenhauer Continue reading Life and Nothingness
Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.-Robert M. Pirsig Continue reading Rationale
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.-Eugène Ionesco Continue reading Real Deal
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.-Terry Pratchett Continue reading Stories and Storytelling
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.-Oscar Wilde Continue reading Masked Truth-Oscar Wilde Reflections
“I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. That is the working within me of Life’s incessant aspiration to higher organization, wider, deeper, intenser self-consciousness, and clearer self-understanding. It was the supremacy of … Continue reading Shaw’s Reflections
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.-Hermann Hesse Continue reading Wisdom
Amitav Chowdhury 