Of all creatures on earth, in proportion to their size and weight, humans have the smallest footprint on the ground and the largest on the environment.

Darkness is perhaps the only reality, the only truth, both of which have only one property; they are eternal. What we call light is a mere temporary absence of darkness, untruth, a mere temporary absence...

If I do not agree with something or do not like something, it will be wrong to presume that I hate it. Presuming disagreement or dislike to be the same as hatred is stifling engagement....

Earth” is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.

When happiness rides on the wings of art, it transcends time.

Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.

Religion can only be a means to a set of values cherished by its living adherents. If those values relate only to a past or a presumed afterlife, it is a sign that religion has...

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

As you look up to see the stars,keep watching the ground with your feet.

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone’s cup of tea and He...

As the dew drop slides down the leaf to wet the soil, they call it “fall in love”. Yet, do we know the way up from the way down?

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of...

As long as one can think as an outsider, an observer apart from the conflict, there is hope for a resolving thought.

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world...

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

Humans are like Variables in mathematics, some Dependent, some Independent. Variables are in relationship but remain Variable. Of course, there are some Constants too both in mathematics and humans. Constants help define precisely the relationship...

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called “seeing”. Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

My Ten Commandments:1. God is a verb, not a noun.2. Prayers are important only if they lead to corresponding actions.3. Creation is an art. Science provides the tools for the artist. Anybody with the tools...

Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph. Well, men are twice more likely than God...

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all,...

Wind is on fire” – beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have...

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.