I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.
Yann MartelFaith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
Yann MartelTags: love god religion faith free trust
I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
Yann MartelTags: christianity religion jesus
It's not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation.
Yann MartelTags: doubt atheists agnostics
I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.
Yann MartelTags: life-of-pi
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
Yann MartelYou must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
Yann MartelTags: inspirational
Strach to jedyny prawdziwy przeciwnik życia.
Yann MartelTags: life
Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
Yann MartelZawsze znajdą się tacy, którzy wezmą na siebie obowiązek obrony Boga, jakby Najwyższa Istota czy podstawa wszelkiego bytu była czymś słabym i wymagającym wsparcia. Ludzie ci przechodzą obok wdowy przeżartej trądem i żebrzącej o kilka pais, mijając obojętnie koczujące na ulicy dzieci w łachmanach i myślą sobie:"Tak to już jest na świecie". Ale jeśli wyczują najlżejsze uchybienie wobec Boga, to całkiem inna sprawa. Czerwienieją na twarzy, dosłownie ich zatyka, wypluwają gniewne słowa. Intensywność ich oburzenia jest zdumiewająca. Ich zawziętość przeraża.
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