Private Reading, p. 152.
A History of Reading (1996)
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (1995, 2000)
Context: Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.
“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.”
Source: The Summer Without Men
“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”
“There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.”
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 3, p. 640
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.”
Source: Poems
The Triple Thinkers (1938) [Oxford University Press, 1948], Preface, p. ix
“One single ideal can transform a listless soul into a towering leader of men.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
