"Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it."

-- Sri Aurobindo

#Keys Quotes #Sri Lanka Quotes #Mind Quotes

“There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.”
“What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle all important questions, but tell me, dear, isn't it because you're young, because you haven't had time to suffer till you settled a single one of your questions? You boldly look forward, isn't it because you cannot foresee or expect anything terrible, because so far life has been hidden from your young eyes? You are bolder, more honest, deeper than we are, but think only, be just a little magnanimous, and have mercy on me.”
“If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
“Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.”
“Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.”

Source : Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.303, Counterpoint
“Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.'”
“I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.”
“I don't blame individuals, I blame myself.”

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