Saurabh Mylavaram

“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time,”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Empedocles was to die when he leapt into the crater of Mount Etna, in an attempt to prove to his followers that he was immortal. Opinion remained divided at the time, but over the years his lack of reappearance went against him.”
― Paul Strathern, Mendeleyev's Dream: The Quest for the Elements

“If we remember that the German word for holy (selig) is the root of our word silly, we may be forced to make some pertinent connections.”
― Mary Rose O'Reilley, Radical Presence: Teaching as Contemplative Practice