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‘Indian gurus have said that true wisdom lies in knowing that one knows nothing.
He had managed to overcome the best of security technology, only to be screwed by human intervention.
Omar Khayyam had advised, ‘Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.’
Zoroastrian philosophy emphasised the value of their own trinity: good thoughts, good words and good deeds—humata, hukata and huvarastha.
all that money can give is the freedom of not having to worry about it.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Human beings are given the freedom to choose one path over the other. ‘They can take the path to love and righteous living, or fall on the path to greed and mischief,’ explained my father. I recalled my teacher, Mrs Batliwala, telling the class that the root of the English word ‘angry’ actually lies in ‘angra’, the first name of the dark, destroying entity.
‘Its presence should warn you that it may not be the object you seek.’
‘What if Jim, Linda and Dan were to travel as cargo instead of passengers?’ asked Abbasi.
There are two traps to avoid in life. One. Caring
what they think. Two. Thinking that they care.
At its core, this was a battle over inheritance of wealth, not faith.
‘It is fashionable these days to ignore history in order to preserve the peace between faiths,’ she said. ‘And I am all for peace and interfaith understanding. But that process must start with recognising what happened, not whitewashing it.
‘The Baloch people are spread across three countries—Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. They speak their own language, Balochi. For them, national borders mean nothing. They are ethnically and linguistically one people who happen to be in three separate countries.’
For these Taliban thugs, nothing mattered more than additional dollars. And the occasional word of Allah—when it suited them.
‘You are not an earthly body having a spiritual experience. Turn that notion on its head—you are a spiritual being having an earthly experience. If you want that substance to take effect, you must bring to it a pure body and a pure spirit. As Indian gurus have always said—dava and dua.
‘The word “ritual” is also part of the word “spiritual”,’
