R. N. Prasher Quotes

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of illusion and reality, trees and forests can offer no help.

Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God, a major study of attitudes among middle aged Britons has found, says The Telegraph.
Well, men are twice more likely than God to believe in women! (At least that was so in the Garden of Eden)

The restless spirit never loses its wings. If sometimes it cannot fly, it is because during those moments the sky vanishes.

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

When happiness rides on the wings of art, it transcends time.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:
Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.

Like everything else, we know the futility of money only when we have more than enough of it.

Earth" is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.

Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.