Memory isn’t perfect, but love is:
Instead of striving to “be right,” strive to be patient and kind.
“Look at your body in a mirror: You will realize you’re mortal; run your fingers over your ribs as though across a guitar, and you’ll see how close you’re to the grave. It’s because we’re dressed that we entertain immortality: how can we die when we wear a necktie?”
There is no world out there to return to. It’s broken and sick. We will have to return this shattered world and build it once again brick by brick.
Duniya ke banaaye raaston mein
uljhanein kam na thin
Aur jab chala khud banake raaste
toh duniya ulajh gayi
- Neelesh Jain
I have come a long way. Where? I just don't know where?
We are here for a blink of an eye. Pride dissolves in the presence of death. May we accept our mortality. This too shall pass.
Is it possible for the mind to live completely, totally, in the present? It is only such a mind that has no fear.
“Try to be free: you will die of hunger. Society tolerates you only if you are successively servile and despotic; it is a prison without guards – but from which you do not escape without dying.”
——Emil Cioran
“A Short History of Decay” (1949)
Kya hoga safar mein uss sawaar ka haal
Lakdi ke ghode pe jo seekha hai sawaari
- Neelesh Jain
Saari duniya unhein gale lagaati...
Jo chehre pe muskaan hain laate!
- Neelesh Jain
Something is not true just because most people believe in it.
Something is not false just because few people believe in it.
A new belief always begins with few believers.
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
"Just as an arrowsmith shapes an arrow to perfection with fire, so does the wise man shape his mind, which is fickle, unsteady, vulnerable, and erratic."
— The Dhammapada, translated by Ananda Maitreya
In Japan, people follow the leader in almost every aspect of public life, and remain wildly, vividly themselves behind closed doors; in America, everyone goes his own way, and then in private many cry out for someone whose orders they can follow. The virus changes nothing.
There is no fear in abstraction, it is always in relation to something.
The truth of what is, for all of us that it's all going to go away. U, me, everything goes into blackness, the void. And nobody's in charge. And you're left with NOTHING. That's all there is. What do we do with that? You just smile and keep dancing till the music plays.
Living in such a corrupt, stupid society as we do, with the competitive education we receive, which engenders fear, we are all burdened with fears of some kind. Fear is a dreadful thing which warps, twists and dulls our days.
“ Hell is not punishment. Hell is training . “
Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless The spring comes again.
The wise know nothing at all; Well maybe one song.
“There is more wisdom in letting yourself be carried by the waves than in struggling against them.”
Emil Cioran
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Remember that you are the only one who can make your actions match your words.
“I dream of wanting
— and all I want seems
to me worthless.”
Emil Cioran
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Jahan mumkin hai hawa aur roshni ka silsila
Samajhna wahan jharokha hai deewar nahin
- Neelesh Jain
"It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you."
— C.G. Jung, The Red Book
I don’t want posterity to remember ME at all.I don’t want the world to recall me as a holy man.U do everything to be remembered .U want airports,stamps, monuments in ur name.U do everything to just continue.Permanence is just not possible.The quest for permanence is man's tragedy
”True words aren’t eloquent; eloquent words aren’t true. Wise men don’t need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren’t wise.”
Ingmar Bergman
meeting with Ang Lee
We crave the satisfaction of having a position in society because we are afraid of being nobody
Being in Peoples mind is more important than being in headlines.
To a mind that is still, the entire universe surrenders.
“I have no wish at all that something special should come from me, that I should create some great thing, I simply want to live, to dream, to hope, to keep up everywhere... Life, dear heart, is short, and we must live it the best we can.“
————Anton Chekhov
from “Three Years”
How to immigration policy
“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.”
Kabir,
Hum jungle se nikalkar ‘insaan’ bane
Kya pata, par aisa log samajhte hain
- Neelesh Jain
Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.
All emotions, no matter how intense, are temporary.
Aman kii duniya ko paakar maine ye paaya...
Aaftaab, aasmaan, dariya sab khud mein hai
- Neelesh Jain