"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion." - Richard Feynman, quoting his mother
Photo courtesy: Nick Stadie, Uttarakhand Himalayan foothills, India, summer of 2008
Banaras: (quoting my friend) "the world's oldest living city, and the only one on
the Ganges that faces the East,
and the one where
monkeys are considered sacred and cremated with as much feeling as human
beings are, and where music and water and bhang create the world's most
volatile combination, and the one where I spent the best years of my life...", and where I spent 4 years as an undergraduate in an aura of romance, cigarettes and learning.
Hermann Hesse "Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."
Somerset Maugham "He lied and never knew he lied, and when it was pointed out to him said that lies were beautiful. He was an idealist."
Pablo Neruda
"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
Li Bai "The birds have vanished down the sky;now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and I;until only the mountain remains."
The Snow Leopard. I want to be a snow leopard in my next life, and jump from rock to rock with poise and abandon.
Ladakh. The land of high passes, snowy peaks, snow leopards, white sunshine and merry rosy-cheeked people.
George Harrison And I'm sitin' here, doin' nothin' but agin', still my guitar gently weeps...
Mark Twight "I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day."
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