Rudradeep Mukherjee

“সাহিত্য একটা তীব্র নেশা, রক্তের সঙ্গে মিশে যায়, যাকে একবার এই নেশা ধরে, তার আর অন্য কোনো গতি থাকে না। আবার এ কথাও হয়তো ঠিক, অনেক লেখুই এক এক সময় এই নেশা থেকে মুক্তি পেতে চায়! সাহিত্য সৃষ্টিতে খ্যাতি-কীর্তি-অর্থের সম্ভাবনা আছে বটে, কিন্তু তার জন্য লেখককে ভেতরে ভেতরে কত কষ্ট যে সহ্য করতে হয়! এক একসময় রক্ত ক্ষরণের মধ্যে মিশে যায় শব্দের বিষ, তা অন্যদের পক্ষে বোঝা সম্ভব নয়।”
― Sunil Gangopadhyay

“Man is essentially 'finite freedom'; freedom not in the sense of indeterminacy but in the sense of being able to determine himself through decisions in the center of his being. Man, as finite freedom, is free within the contingencies of his finitude. But within these limits he is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become, to fulfill his destiny.”
― Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

“The little open door of each individual’s inferior function is what contributes to the sum of collective evil in the world.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, Lectures on Jung's Typology

“This brings us to a further aspect of the doctrine of Tikkun, which is also the most important for the system of practical theosophy. The process in which God conceives, brings forth and develops himself does not reach its final conclusion in God. Certain parts of the process of restitution are allotted to man. Not all the lights which are held in captivity by the powers of darkness are set free by their own efforts; it is man who adds the final touch to the divine countenance; it is he who completes the enthronement of God, the king and the mystical Creator of all things, in His own Kingdom of Heaven; it is he who perfects the maker of all things! In certain spheres of being, divine and human existence are intertwined. The intrinsic, extramundane process of Tikkun, symbolically described as the birth of God's personality, corresponds to the process of mundane history. The historical process and its innermost soul, the religious act of the Jew, prepare the way for the final restitution of all scattered and exiled lights and sparks.”
― Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism