John Div

“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“தொட்டிலுக்கு அன்னை கட்டிலுக்குக் கன்னி
பட்டினிக்குத் தீனி கெட்ட பின்பு ஞானி

A mother for the cradle, a damsel for the bed
food for hunger, sinistrad realised saint.”
― Kannadhasan

“This plant represents what's happening inside of you. The world, like the soil, is cold and dark—layered with a history of destruction and death. You were planted in this world to rise above it. Do you not see? The very existence of this darkness gives you the opportunity to become a light to the world.”
― Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

“If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So when you look at that object, you are seeing it as it appeared eight hundred light years ago, not as it looks today. It might not even exist anymore. Every time you look up at the stars, you are looking into the past.”
― Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life