GITA MEHTA 1943-2023
I’M LUCKY to be a writer coming out of a civilization like India. After all, ours is the civilization that based everything on relativity long before Albert Einstein came up with the physics of it. The notion of relativity, of time, of experience and of cognition is something we as writers can always tap into.
THE EXTENT TO WHICH an imperial power can convince the colonized people that they are progressive insofar as they imitate their imperial masters, backward insofar as they remain native.
THE ASSUMPTION that these were primitive cultures is just a sideline of imperialism; you believe that everything that’s available to you must be western.
E.M. FORSTER & RUDYARD KIPLING were writing about India through the British prism, through the lens of the British seeing a colonized people.
TWO WEEKS AFTER I WAS BORN my father was taken off in handcuffs to British jails, where he was kept for for the next three and a half years.
SONNY MEHTA: I HAVE ALWAYS FOUND COMFORT IN THE CONFINES of a book or manuscript. Reading is how I spend most of my time, is still the most joyful aspect of my day. I want to be remembered not as an editor or publisher, but as a reader.
WHEN PHOTOGRAPHY works well, you can go inside the psyche of the people in the picture. You can see beyond the moment.
MARVIN NEWMAN 1927-2023
WHEN YOU ACTUALLY begin your creative work, the energy of the universe comes to you and imagination flows. LYNN V. ANDREWS
WHEN A COMPLEX SYSTEM is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order. ILYA PRIGOGINE
EMPTY THE VESSEL
THE more empty we become
Empty of the agitated self
That preoccupies our time.
The more full we become
With natural intelligence
The divine itself begins to flow.
The divine is always there
But it cannot be heard
Through the noise and density of self.
To really hear its blessing
And feel its wisdom
We must make space for it.
This is not just an intellectual exercise
But a full orgasm experience.
KAVIJI–Poet & spiritual guide
SOMEWHERE, something incredible is waiting to be known.
CARL SAGAN
THE SOLE MEANING OF LIFE IS TO SERVE HUMANITY.
LEO TOLSTOY
GURU NANAK 1469-1539 Founder of Sikhism Golden Rules: Remember God constantly, Earn an honest livelihood, Share their earnings with everyone through charity.
THE WORLD IS A DRAMA, STAGED IN A DREAM.
DO NOT wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.
CONQUER YOUR MIND AND CONQUER THE WORLD.
TRUTH is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living.
WITH YOUR HANDS CARVE OUT YOUR OWN DESTINY.
THE HIGHEST RELIGION is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
BE THE WISDOM you support. Be the compassion your guide and listen to the Divine Music that beats in every heart.
THOSE WHO HAVE LOVED ARE THOSE THAT HAVE FOUND GOD.
LIKE THE JUGGLER, DECEIVING BY HIS TRICKS, ONE IS DELUDED BY EGOTISM, FALSEHOOD AND ILLUSION.
THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, HIS NAME IS TRUTH.
SPEAK ONLY THAT WHICH WILL BRING YOU HONOR.
DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY!