Haridas Chaudhuri famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.
-- Haridas Chaudhuri

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The spiritual path is not strewn with roses.
-- Haridas Chaudhuri

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The kind of operation that is necessary to help us out of our dualistic thinking is a nondual experience. Then we begin to see things as one again.
-- Haridas Chaudhuri

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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.
The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.
Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.
I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.
Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

Haridas Chaudhuri famous quotes

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