Kuruvilla Pandikattu: Trending quotes

“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!”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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!”

“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!”

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

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

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