Tawsif Elahi Chowdhury

“After many paths and many years, perhaps many lifetimes, we become aware of the sacredness of our suffering.”
― Earthschool Harmony, Back To Grace: Spiritual Poetry & Reflections

“Religion can hardly revive, because it cannot decay. To put the matter bluntly on the lowest level, it is not to anybody’s interest that religion should disappear. If it did, many compositors would be thrown out of work; the audiences of our best-selling scientists would shrink to almost nothing; and the typewriters of the Huxley Brothers would cease from tapping. Without religion the whole human race would die, as according to W. H. R. Rivers, some Melanesian tribes have died, solely of boredom. Every one would be affected: the man who regularly has a run in his car and a round of golf on Sunday, quite as much as the punctilious churchgoer.”
― T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays: 1917-1932

“Every great journey stimulates great faith and great joy.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life. I think ritual is terribly important.”
― Joseph Campbell