Ashish Pandey

“A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.”
― Himmilicious

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Three specific qualities rise from this system of creation binding everything together. The first quality (sattva) is truth and goodness, and is the bond to purity, happiness and wisdom. The second is passion (rajas) and is the bond to compulsion and attachment. The third is indifference and ignorance (tamas), and is the bond to ignorance, delusion, sloth and indolence.”
― Edward Viljoen, Bhagavad Gita For Beginners: The Song Of God In Simplified Prose

“level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love