“In order to create and to heal, to do and to serve,.. to act we need detachment.”
All Will be Well (2004)
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Rediff News, "Who is an Indian?", Available Online http://www.rediff.com/republic/2000/apr/06shashi.htm, April 6, 2000
2000s
If Prison Walls Could Speak (1972)
“People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves.”
"The Spell Cast by Persons—The Nexus of Unfreedom", p. 158
The Denial of Death (1973)
“Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares
“What we need is not truths that serve us but a truth we may serve.”
Source: Degrees of Knowledge (1932, Notre Dame Translation), p. 4.
From Amritanandamayi's Speech Against Human Trafficking and Slavery at the Vatican (2014)
An interview with Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Byrnes https://www.postguam.com/news/local/an-interview-with-coadjutor-archbishop-michael-byrnes/article_4718c446-a175-11e6-aa88-ab3f00f938d3.html (November 4, 2016)
Kunnumpuram, Kurien, 2011 “Theological Exploration,” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 14/2 (July-Dec 2011)
On God
Interview for French TV (1998)
Context: There's a detachment that you need as a writer. And as a young man, I probably had more detachment than I have today. So that part of me was just looking at the battlefield, and it was certainly full of horrors. There was a lieutenant with us and a driver and another enlisted man like myself. And I think they were shocked profoundly.
I just thought — this is a cold and cruel thing to say, but it's the way a writer is — I thought, "Oh, this is good." Not that it was good that all these people are dead. But "Oh, it's so good for writing." There was a sense of, "This can be used."