ELUDES

 

The love that eludes us 

is always more attractive 

than the love we live with

STORIES

 

Stories become talking points 

when fiction stops being fiction 

and becomes an extended version 

of our own desires.

REBELLION

 

It is said that in any relationship, only one person actually loves and the other person just lets himself or herself be loved

The small acts of rebellion - preferring career to love and live in relationships - are no longer rebellion. They, today,  are accepted social facts.

MOTHERS

 

Mothers have to talk sense, preach with sensibility.

ADJUSTMENTS

 

Know all relationships are adjustments. 

And that life seldom measures up to love and its crushing cargo of expectations.

Know everyone must make their share of mistakes to learn at least something

LOVE

 What's love but making the same mistakes over and over again

FRAGILE

 

Life is fragile. Unbearably fragile.

The flood does not ask who you are

THE DIVINE

 

The divine does not promise us safety. 

The divine gives us this moment. 

What we make of it is the whole of our spiritual journey

THE MOMENT

 

Value the moment. 

Value the breath

NATURE

 Nature owes us no explanation.

There is no message hidden in a flash flood. 

No lesson the mountain is trying to teach

THE ANGUISH

 

When an untimely death occurs,

the anguish is not in the dying. 

It is in the years that could not be lived

THE CAPTAIN OF THE ENGLAND CRICKET TEAM - JOE ROOT

The captain of the England cricket team Joe Root is confident of working his way through a dip in form that has seen him trapped LBW nine times in his last 13 innings.

He says,"I've played this game a long time and I've always found ways of solving those problems and working it through. I don't  see this as being any different. There's a reason why I've got 14000 runs and a reason why I've played the best part of 15 years at this level."

MORE THE SPADEWORK

 

The more the spadework - 

the more the effort, 

the more the practice, 

the more the preparation, 

the more you work - 

the stronger you become

HUMAN BEINGS

 

Human beings are not  defined by what happens to them.

They are defined by how they respond to what happens to them

CEASED TO EXIST - CEASED TO BE

 When life was extinguished in the earlier  days, there was a certain resignation.

It belonged to the older world, when something that ceased to exist also ceased to be.