Expressions

I woke up early, feeling bright, Determined to get just  everything right. I made a list, a perfect plan, And promptly lost it — like a fan!...

  I've lost the eyes that made me a child,  Through which the ordinary once ran wild.  The world grows old beneath my view;  Even th...

Our journey is from a zoo to a zoo, and perhaps the journey itself is an attempt to be free. Ignorance and knowledge, poverty and wealth,...

Sounds all around us, each different in nature. We're all here, yet we seldom hear. In a single moment, everything can change— an acc...

In a darkened room, you see nothing. You switch on the light, and everything comes into view. Come, let us begin here. Close your eyes. ...

  If I could see the same wood in a table or in a lectern, why can’t I see in you the same Brahman I see in me? Perhaps I’m overwhelmed...

Divisions of every kind dissolve into oblivion with knowledge. Then there is no fear, no feat to achieve, no greed to pursue, no longin...

When I hold your hand, my friend, I know the days are golden and will never end. We'll sail through thick and thin; I draw my streng...

When I hear these waters rolling down from somewhere I imagine it as a hidden place in a mountain where treasures are stored, tears of joy r...

  With my boat, I am going nowhere. The sails, the mast, the boom lie still, though the wind keeps pressing against them. The rigging a...

The same words, different verse— fear, joy, love, bitter, sweet, punched in and out of sentences, of days, of lives. They have said it all ...

  To understand our story, you must think as we do— in minds thick with blankness, where words lie submerged, waiting like bubbles to ...

  Voices crowd into my head. The weather is overcast and grim; grey clouds obscure the sun. Characters, structures of every kind, swirl...

In the crepuscular hour, when daylight loosens its hold on the earth and evening gathers its shadows, I walk alone beneath the trees. ...