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‘There was quiet and peace in finding one’s voice. She longs for quiet: empty, dark. You reach music in silence, sound in emptiness, vision in darkness. You touch the earth in solitude. You hear the grass grow. Watch the flowers blossom.’

‘Such is youth. Impulses leap. One moment we are ready to give our own lives, the next we are bent on taking the lives of others.’

‘The world is in the Mahabharata, the world is in the family, and thus the Mahabharata is in the family. The daily flare-ups—each one a Mahabharata.’

‘Well, words are words, right or wrong, they just keep flowing, and who really knows how to keep their mouths shut, but the concern was Ma, who had just lain there for so long, back turned; then she’d become the Wishing Tree, then, poof, she’d disappeared into thin air.’

‘She who did not rise, how could she have risen that she thus arose?’