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101. Sometimes you have to borrow time from time itself—to gift yourself the hours needed to find yourself anew. And sometimes emptiness feels beautiful; solitude feels beautiful; silence feels beautiful; stillness feels beautiful; even the distance from those we love feels beautiful, as do weariness and melancholy—in such moments, you feel a profound love for yourself. Especially when your heart is heavy, those two questions—"Are you alright?" and "Why aren't you alright?"—only make it heavier. Better to sit quietly and give your heart the time it needs to heal itself. There seems no sweeter moment than loving yourself in solitude. What could be more beautiful than self-love? I love myself deeply, so truly, it matters little to me whether others love me or not.
102. Every day I practice bearing a thousand slights—so that one day I might become worthy of someone's love.
103. Do you know what's the real difference between a village dog and a foreign dog? The village dog has a village mind, and the foreign dog has a foreign mind. In that sense, not all dogs are the same. Some dogs eat filth—not from hunger, but from habit.
104. If you don't understand whose criticism to accept and whose to dismiss, your life becomes infiltrated by worthless people. There are two kinds of criticism you needn't heed: criticism offered in ignorance or half-understanding, and what masquerades as criticism but is really condemnation. Criticism concerns itself with work; condemnation concerns itself with the person.
105. Don't entangle yourself in pointless arguments. Lift yourself far above both the argument and the one arguing it. To argue with just anyone is to drag yourself down to their level. In matters where I am confident, I have nothing to prove. Most importantly, I dismiss any comment from someone to whom it matters not whether I prove myself or not.
106. I am no successful person. I pursue no goal of success, have pursued none. I only try, again and again, to do my own work as well as I can. The rest follows of its own accord.
107. People fail in two ways: through effort and through its absence. Most speak of trying hard yet failing—but the truth is different. If you cannot succeed at something, offer no excuses; stay silent and turn to something else. Or try the same task differently. You cannot run away. Running away is the true cause of failure. Failing at one task means the path to success in another has opened.
108. Many accumulate money while taking on fresh troubles. If someone loves living in turmoil, so be it. But what sense is there in inviting trouble merely to gather more money?
109. People spend nearly half their lives asleep, squandering it. Think of it! There's no difference between sleep and death. The more we diminish death in the time we live, the more beautiful life becomes. Our progress varies with how much we sleep. Those who sleep peacefully are the ones for whom someone else has sacrificed their own sleep.
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# The Measure of Character and Other Reflections
Irresponsibility is the absence of character; a conscience unmade is ignorance itself. So long as we measure character by looking at the body's machinery, and knowledge by staring at certificates, we shall remain precisely as foolish as we are!
111. The purest joy in the world is sex; the only unfeigned laughter belongs to children; and the truly selfless being is the newborn.
112. Everyone loves and trusts the humble and the courteous. This is precisely why most fraudsters resort to humility, honeyed words, and flawless performance. There is no more potent weapon for deception than meekness.
113. The words "I believe in you" carry far greater weight than "I love you." People search so long for love that they eventually lose both belief and love itself—lose themselves along with it.
114. There lies an enormous distance between films and books. In films, characters are painted in colors chosen by others; they exist as others have designed them. In books, everything, every character, is rendered in the colors of your own brush—as you wish to imagine them. This is why reading books written to order is terribly perilous.
115. By extraordinary fortune, I was born as a human in this life; there is no guarantee I shall be born human again, or born at all in the next. Life comes but once. Better to squander it freely on your own happiness than to cause harm. One must grow at least large enough to have the means and the time to throw away on one's own joy.
116. Eighty percent of the world's troubles can be solved with money; the rest are the tangles of love and human conflict. Just as controlling what you eat diminishes your waistline, controlling your emotions shrinks your expenses considerably.
117. It is in old age that a person needs companionship most desperately, yet it is precisely then that one becomes most alone. I find no reason to call humane a person who neglects the elderly.
118. I find it laughable when I see someone who loves all living creatures keeping one alive by feeding flesh—fish, duck, chicken, cattle—to another. Yet they forget entirely that these too are lives, are creatures. In this sense, being an unbiased lover of all life is rather impossible.
119. The fewer words spoken, the fewer mistakes made. More words mean more errors. Some people err while speaking; others speak while erring. Rarely does silence lead one to ruin.
120. When someone departs from life, it opens the possibility of another's arrival. To believe that we can receive from one person alone all we hope for from those close to us—this belief is simply false. There is not only one kindred spirit; if fortune allows and you search, you will find more.
121. God is belief itself. If you believe, God exists; if you don't, He doesn't. I once read something like this in Sunil's writing: ghosts and gods trouble only those who believe in them.
122. Some four and a half thousand religions exist in this world. Believers of each religion trust that theirs alone is truth, all others falsehood. To argue about it is to waste time in vain. Let whoever wishes to think as they do remain at peace with their thoughts. Sleep is better than debating religion. Belief and argument have never been friends. Every religion is true, because every religion keeps people alive in some way or another. As for those who speak differently—it is best to keep your distance from them for the sake of your own mental health.
123. In the black letters of scripture, there is no quarrel, no distance. They are all sacred and beautiful. It is only in the human eye that the same letters take on different hues. And it is only then that trouble stirs over what is beautiful and what is not.
Religion quarrels not with religion; the quarrel is between the blind and the blind.
124. Religion and one's name—both are fixed upon a person before consciousness dawns. In neither does the person have any merit or fault of their own. To carry throughout life until death these two determinations made by others—this is what we call 'identity.' You might say identity can be changed if one wishes. Why not change it then? Then I too will ask: who are you to speak about whether I keep my identity or alter it? See, I have no concern whatsoever with your identity! Where do you find the time for such things?...Beware of the agents of heaven and hell!
125. A hundred years from now, none of us alive today shall remain, and yet some of us will still be spoken of then. Is that not strange?
126. One day in an exam, as students type away on computers, they will write: 'Incredible as it may seem, it is true that our ancestors once took exams by writing with pens on paper!' Modernity is a relative affair.
127. A day slipping away from life means one day closer to death. By that measure, there is not a single backward person in this world!
128. Not-getting does not wound the heart as deeply as losing what one has gained. What must eventually be relinquished is better never held, however dear.
129. What will ultimately cease to be should be ended from the start. The earlier bitterness is more palatable than the later.
130. Living is harder than dying. One can die with ease if one wishes—alas—but one cannot live with that same ease, however much one desires it.
131. Mistakes that seem childish to a mother when her daughter makes them become unbearable crimes, affectations, in the eyes of the mother-in-law when the daughter-in-law commits them. A mother-in-law rarely becomes a true mother.
132. Discipline that feels like discipline from one's own mother feels like oppression from the mother-in-law. This is why a daughter-in-law can rarely become a true daughter.
133. Life is nothing but a collection of moments of time; when time ends, life ends. Therefore, each moment of time is essential.
134. If two people are bound in a relationship yet either feels alone, know that the time has come to end that bond. After this, no questions remain. If questions persist, life does not.
135. Like eating habits, sexual need too is a natural thing, and yet while hunger justified by eating is no crime, the satisfaction of sexual hunger is measured and deemed criminal by various standards. Such inequality in the fulfillment of need cannot be a healthy or just custom.
136. The most sacred feeling in the world is to see a smile on the faces of children and parents. For this, one can live; for this, one can die. Many families, despite hardship, have endured by looking at their children's faces and into their parents' eyes.
137. To keep secret the confidential words entrusted to you based on another's faith in you—this is a great devotion. One who spreads secrets does not spread them out of judgment; they spread them out of habit.
138. The expenses of weddings and the expenses after death—both are utterly needless expenditures. To exhaust in a single day the wealth earned through hardship, feeding others once, yields no result, even a negative one. People earn far more infamy by eating than by not eating.
139. Knowledge, wisdom, and intelligence—these three reveal the distinction between human and inhuman.
Those who disregard these three should surely be abandoned.
140. The greedy person is never compassionate; the compassionate person is never greedy.
141. Sex is the only laborious task that a healthy person never shirks. People will have their servants do every kind of work—from household chores to office duties—except this one. No one is truly lazy; it is only the nature of the work that matters!
142. Today people do not die from hunger; they die from the absence of joy. Every person who takes their own life does so because of some missing happiness. We all understand treating someone to mean feeding them, yet there is a far greater gift—giving that person your time to listen to their sorrow and truly understand it. When one has the means and the will, this is the easiest deed in the world to accomplish, even though other acts demand only money.
143. Women wear the conch shell, vermilion, bangles, and nose rings as signs of marriage, yet there is no visible mark to identify a married man. And yet both are bound by the marriage bond! There is no doubt that these customs were fashioned for the convenience of men.
144. Whoever lacks the beautiful sight to behold my ugliness has no right to enjoy my beauty! How can one who cannot bear me as I am claim to possess me as they wish?
145. Whoever has saved the life of an innocent creature has earned the merit of saving a human being. Whether it be an ant or a person, all life is equally beloved to the Creator.
146. A person's eating habits reveal both their health and their character.
147. Friends and neighbors will wish, even on the day before their own death, that they might see you lag behind them by even a thread, so they may die in peace!
148. Nothing in this world happens without cause. The one who has committed seven murders also has some "logical" reason behind each killing. For one who dies moment by moment, capital punishment is hardly a severe punishment at all—yet such a person, having no other way, commits murder nonetheless!
149. There are countless invisible beauties in this world that cannot be seen with open eyes; they must be seen with closed eyes. Such as dreams, joy, the feeling of love, affection itself. A person sees most keenly when they do not see at all!
150. A person without character and a rotten potato are no different—both emit the same foul stench!
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