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Wed 7 Apr, 2010 09:35 am
Hello everyone!
I'm new here and wish to introduce myself. I'm a free-lance writer from India, interested in Literature and Philosophy; a down-to-earth person of very simple lifestyle; a vegetarian promoting Buddhist ideals of non-violence, passive resistance and self-contemplation; an unconventional lone traveller who looks on at everything in life with awed wonder?
In order to describe briefly of my way of thinking, let me share with you some quotes which reflects my own view of life. Please let me know if you have similar views on life:
"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at the understanding of the universe and how we have come to wakeup in it? Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it?" - Dawkins.
"Strange, isn't it? That of the myriads who before us passed the door of darkness, no one returns to speak us of the road; which to discover we must travel too"? (Omar Qayyam)
"I have one longing only: to grasp what is hidden behind appearances, to ferret out that mystery which brings me to birth and then kills me, to discover if behind the visible and unceasing stream of the world an invisible and immutable presence is hiding. If the mind cannot, if it was not made to attempt the heroic and desperate breach beyond frontiers, then if only the heart could! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond! Beyond man I seek the invisible whip which strikes him and drives him into the struggle. I lie in ambush to find out what primordial face struggles beyond animals to imprint itself on the fleeting flesh by creating, smashing, and remolding innumerable masks. I struggle to make out beyond plants the first stumbling steps of the Invisible in the mud"?-(Nikos Kazantzakis)
Thanking you,
Sebastian Joseph
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