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Kuruvilla Pandikattu is an Indian Jesuit priest and Professor of Philosophy, Science and Religion at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth: Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Pune, Maharashtra, India. He is also Director of JDV Centre for Science-Religion Studies and Association of Science, Society and Religion , Pune.

He has authored/edited twenty-six books and written more than 160 academic articles. He has been involved as co-founder and co-publisher with two journals, Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies and AUC: Asian Journal of Religious Studies. Further, he has organised more than forty academic conferences. His weekly column on "Contemporary Spirituality" appears on Tuesdays in Financial Chronicle. He has been contributing regularly to both academic and popular journals.He is involved in science-religion dialogue and science-related activities, in which topic he has been teaching four courses. His areas of interest include: Science-Religion Dialogue; Philosophical Anthropology ; Hermeneutics and Inter-religious dialogue . Wikipedia  

✵ 28. November 1957
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Kuruvilla Pandikattu: 54   quotes 1   like

Famous Kuruvilla Pandikattu Quotes

“Death is only a step towards …/ In this celebration of love/ Death is a stepping stone/ Towards the fullness/ Towards which all of us/ Consciously and unconsciously long for.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: Live It! p. 92.
Death: Live It! (2005)

“In your presence, dearly beloved,/ I do not need to make up!/ I do not need to adorn myself!/ I can just be myself!/ What a relief!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It! p. 67.
Love: Be it! (2001)

“There is a subtle way of dominating you/ By always making you dependent on me./ Love sees through and liberates you/ To stand on your own feet.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It! p. 19
Love: Be it! (2001)

“My deepest human longing is/ Not to control the world and people/ But to control and realise myself!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Freedom: Foster It! p. 18.
Freedom: Foster it! (2004)

“It [love] conquers nihilism and pessimism/Suicide and self-annihilation./ It conquers its own death. /It is the spark of fire that kindles life forever.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It! p. 127.
Love: Be it! (2001)

“To love implies that I respect you/ Even though I may not like you always./ Love means that I freely revere you/ And leave you free even not to respond to me.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It! p. 32
Love: Be it! (2001)

Kuruvilla Pandikattu Quotes about life

“Life is security and daring,/ Life is protection and risk,/ Life is openness and closure,/ It is safety and adventure.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It!
Life: Relish It! (2012)

“To be alive is to feel the joy of being./ In spite of the sorrows and joys of life/ The primary joy is that of being./ That of my existence. / That I exist is the most fundamental experience is joy for me!/ I, who do not deserve to, really exist./ I, who need not, do exist!/ I, who may not, do exist.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: Live It! p. 130.
Death: Live It! (2005)

“To relish life and to relish death/ And to be grateful for both/ And to be open for more/ In both death and life.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: Live It! p. 72.
Death: Live It! (2005)

“To look straight into the eyes of my death/ My non-being/ To face myself as living and dying/ In the bare nakedness of my life and non-life.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: Live It! p. 49.
Death: Live It! (2005)

“Life Is Beautiful: Enjoy It/ Life Is Fragile: Foster It/ Life Is Relational: Share It/ Life Is Paradoxical: Encounter It/ Life Is Fascinating: Contemplate It/ Life Is: Be”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It!
Life: Relish It! (2012)

“Humans: The only animal who can laugh!/ We can enjoy the lighter side of life/ And we can also laugh at others/ And ridicule others!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It!
Life: Relish It! (2012)

Kuruvilla Pandikattu Quotes about joy

“There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 44.
Joy: Share it! (2017)

“The secret of joy is: To know the world and its evil powers … and still preserve the hope.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p.54.
Joy: Share it! (2017)

“The reward of joy is joy itself; not for its own sake; but for the sake of others.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p.134.
Joy: Share it! (2017)

“Real genuine joy is borne of sadness and sorrow.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 36.
Joy: Share it! (2017)

“Joy emerges from my little, timid life/ of everydayness and temerity.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 42.
Joy: Share it! (2017)

“The joy that is everywhere/ Is the true joy of being/ The joy that is life itself!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 140.
Joy: Share it! (2017)

Kuruvilla Pandikattu: Trending quotes

“Freedom is the expression of my truest self/ The cry of being deepest being!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: Freedom: Foster It! p. 26. (2004)

Freedom , Cry

“Death has been the great leveler/ Of all honour, glory and name./ None can take anything with them/ To their tomb! Death! The sobering fact/ Of all our yearnings and longings!/ “What does it profit a man …”/ If he cannot take any of the things/ To his grave.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: Live It! p. 32.
Death: Live It! (2005)

Death

“Science and religion form the two pillars of our civilization and they need each other for the survival of ourselves.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Religion@scientist.com, p. 23.

Religion , Science

Kuruvilla Pandikattu Quotes

“Freedom is the flow of life/ It is to be part of it/ And to let life flow through you.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Freedom: Foster It! p. 34.
Freedom: Foster it! (2004)

Life , Freedom , Parting

“So is the song of life being sung/ By us and by all the living beings/ A melodious and harmonious song,/ Where the singer loses her own self/ And absorbs in the wonderful harmony of the song!/ An almost ecstatic experience.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It!
Life: Relish It! (2012)

Life

“After realising the depth of tragedy, we can and need to be joyful in hope.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 54.
Joy: Share it! (2017)

Hope

“It is much worse to be dead when we are alive/ Dead by the fear of death, when we are not yet dead!/ The incredible paradox of worrying to avoid death / Being the very cause of death!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: Live It! p. 80.
Death: Live It! (2005)

Death , Fear , Dead

“Humans are the between before and beyond. Ever elusive and ever tensional”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Between Before and Beyond, p. 7.

“By sharing it [love] grows/ By giving it up it nurtures/ By dying it deepens./ By being it becomes.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It! p. 137.
Love: Be it! (2001)

Love

“The spiritual freedom, once relished and tasted/ Is ready to give up everything.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: Freedom: Foster It! p. 117. (2004)

Freedom

“You are a surprise for me./ Every moment./ You are unpredictable in your love./ You cannot be controlled by my love.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: Life: Relish It! p. 96. (2001)

Love

“A parable is fascinating/ In its paradoxical invitation/ In the subversion of values/ In the unconditional acceptance of life/In its total affirmation of life/ Without ifs, buts and …”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: Life: Relish It! (2012)

Life

“The paradox of life is: Joy prepares one for more sadness and the other way around also.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 36.
Joy: Share it! (2017)

Life , Sadness , Way , Joy

“To be free is not an ideal/ But a concrete, specific commitment/ Commitment to a person, to a cause to an issue!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Freedom: Foster It! p. 22.
Freedom: Foster it! (2004)

Personality

“Freedom is basically a spiritual longing/ That can only be filled by a spiritual power.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Freedom: Foster It! p. 114.
Freedom: Foster it! (2004)

Freedom

“To discover meaning is somehow to see the relatedness with everything else,/ However vaguely it may be;./ To find meaning is to see the purpose of things,/ However hazily it may be.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It!
Life: Relish It! (2012)

“Fiction is made of life/ Of earth and clay/ Of tears and laughter/ Of blood and sweat/ Hear them, the works of an author or a painter/ The singer and the clown/ Preserve the mystery of life.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It!
Life: Relish It! (2012)

Life , Tear , Laughter

“Freedom makes life not easy/ But noble and worthwhile!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Freedom: Foster It! p. 30.
Freedom: Foster it! (2004)

Life , Freedom

“Death: frightening and inevitable./ It is necessary to give rise to better offspring./ It is necessary to give way to a better life-style/ It is necessary due to the law of nature.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: Live It! p. 20.
Death: Live It! (2005)

Life , Death , Law , Way

“Love is the source of our hope/ Love is the basis of our vision/ Love is the goal of our progress/ Love is our world.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It! p. 141.
Love: Be it! (2001)

Love , World , Hope

“Love is Human: Own it/ Love is Bodily: Feel it/ Love is Divine: Revere it/ Love is Surrender: Transcend it/ Love is Life: Be!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It! Back Cover
Love: Be it! (2001)

Love , Life , Feeling

“Love enables the emergence of ecstasy/ That of enchantment with life”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life: Relish It! p. 47
Love: Be it! (2001)

Love , Life

“Death stares at me/ Death pushes me forward/ Attracts me onwards/ And carries me on/ And that is my life!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: Live It! p. 57
Death: Live It! (2005)

Life , Death

“Thus genuine joy is contagious/ Reaching out, especially, to the underprivileged/ And in this sense, enables a circle of compassion/ Involving the larger community of life itself.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 140..
Joy: Share it! (2018)

Sense , Joy , Life , Communication

“Calm and peaceful mind/ Prevents us from being a slave to the other/ Ana makde us in charge of/ Our own happiness and fulfilment.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: Joy: Share it! p. 78. (2018)

Peace , Happiness

“As ever approachable and never attainable,/ the journey ventures on and on/ Without limit and borders/ And with full openness toward the infinite possibilities.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 68.
Joy: Share it! (2018)

“There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves/ A deeper fulfilment in commitment/ A nobler life in letting ourselves go/ a truer self in not clinging on to my self!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 44.
Joy: Share it! (2018)

Self-confidence , Joy , Life

“To find the joy of living/ Is to experience the joy of dying/ Where the pain of parting/ Lads to still deeper joy of becoming.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy: Share it! p. 100
Joy: Share it! (2018)

Joy , Pain , Parting

“Time (kaal) is the art (kala) of being.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 28.

Time , Art

“The wisest time of all times is now. Now you are enlightened. Just now.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 24. (2021)

Time

“Being is; Time isn’t; time is; being isn’t!”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 12. (2021)

Time

“Time brings everything to light and reveals the true worth and meaning of everyone and everything.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 8. (2021)

Time , Light

“The passing of time brings healing, sets our priorities right and provide us with new sense of meaning and urgency.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 8. (2021)

Time , Sense

“Time is both a mystery and a miracle. A marvel and magic! We live in time and time lives in us.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 7. (2021)

Time

“Today humanity is confronted with the choice of total elimination or radical enhancement of human beings. This crisis demands that we draw the best from our scientific and religious resources.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: Creative Convergence, p.20., Science-Religion Dialog

Drawing

“This too will pass away. This includes me too.”

Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! (2021), p. 28.

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