Authors From Nepal

"If I'd ever grown prosperous like Shah Jahan was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal."

"I want the fever to grab me forever and want you to be my fever"

"Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that I do not see any dreams!"

"Commands- you're sure to hear from above if you're placed down below."

"I like desires like children and their plays that tease me now and then into knowing life."

"I salute my desires with a bow., were it not for them to come and play mind would be empty just like me."

"I believed all along, one day everyone would go mad just to see me sane."

"Even after all that, each and every being here believe, that the heat will be defeated and coolness will prevail. The experience knows that the rule of an autocrat cannot last long."

"Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of streets."

"Lampposts look in the glow of their defeated light robbed by the fog but cannot tell if the streets lying by stretching limbs in courtyards are sleeping face downwards or supine."

"Creation does not cease just because there is darkness!"

"I would regard meanings given by others so far as refreshing boon, I would still be enamored of rose or any heartless flower's smell if tender tides of your affection had not suffused the pollen of my heart with loving aroma."

"I shall not go out at all given that my love is here shall always stay attached to these hearts. I shall never bid farewell to this place! But I have to send this body anyhow from here."

"What heart touched is what is touched what heart experienced is what is experienced where heart lived is what is lived."

"I could not say which one was more authentic, their fate or the slender woody sticks that supported their shacks."

"I felt I was getting enraged and losing my speech like them losing their dreams."

"I was feeling like mad by the melody of birds singing out of tune in the settlements where travels lose their own destinations."

"Is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult?"

"Life was running, running after a mirage-like desires."

"I asked my life why it carried along my dreams but chose to escape me."

"Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams my life continued to lie still, pretending as if it was in a deep slumber."

"The road kept coming, and continued going somewhere alone."

"This evening, too the Sun had to tell the same story before he went away, leaving the forlorn moon hankering after his light."

"Let us be honest we have praised Angulimala will make no difference if you convey my salute to Amrapali."

"This moment I am keener on the stories of valour washed away by this year's monsoon floods than the abstract shapes glued to myths, history and stories."

"When this flood blocks the road I am worried more by my soil getting washed, than by getting late to reach my destination."

"Should I complete this poem or should I put my room’s light out?"

"In how many minds should I go crazy? whom should I ask?"

"Which eyes should I look for to find the ultimate unreasoned answer?"

"Without asking anybody’s advice I turned myself insane."

"You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!"

"The experience knows that the rule of an autocrat cannot last long."

"From the sky one cannot touch the heart of the stone petrified with a desire to live after living a life of softness for long, one cannot get to touch the tenderness of a flower smiling despite being battered in turn by heat and frost."

"The lovers feel that they are content looking at each other from a distance. The repulsiveness caused by heat between them, is more powerful than all cravings for love and lust."

"Having been ripped open and drained by the crowd when I enter my home, many homes seem to be waiting for me to give a shape to this life which is about to perish."

"I'm searching a heart inside me-- a heart that's ebullient by swallowing the entire pain of the creation, a heart jubilant by accepting the entire tears of the world, a heart aglow by merging the entire dark within itself a heart that's smooth, effervescent and clean."

"This market speaking life when heard from each person is now making staggering confused noise of all people speaking together."

"Man and woman cease to be humans once they get lost into crowds."

"Are people like market who live as humans when they’re alone but live as great complexity when they’re in groups?"

"The walls are releasing heat , as if they are angry with each other. The room has been insaned by the heat. The bed is inflamed as if it were an oven. The bed sheet is soaked with sweat, and about to run away getting stuck to the man."

"It is not more anthropomorphic to postulate the existence of mental states in certain animals than it is to compare their anatomy, their nervous system, and their physiology to ours. When an animal is visibly joyous or sad, why not call things by their names?"

"The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffering. Why do we still blind ourselves, now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, to the immeasurable suffering that we inflict on animals, knowing that a great part of the pain that we cause them is neither necessary nor unavoidable? Certainly we should know that there is no moral justification for inflicting needless pain and death on any being."

"We continue to live in ignorance concerning the harm we inflict on animals; very few of us have ever visited an industrial breeding site or a slaughterhouse. We maintain a kind of moral schizophrenia that has us lavishing pampering our pets and at the same time planting our forks in the pigs that have been sent to the slaughter by the millions, even though they are in no way less conscious, less sensitive to pain, or less intelligent than our cats and dogs."

"We must distinguish between spirituality in general terms, which aims to make us better people, and religion. Adopting a religion remains optional, but becoming a better human being is essential."

"Working to spare animals the immense suffering they undergo does not diminish by one iota my determination to alleviate human misery. Needless suffering must be done away with wherever it is, in whatever form it takes. This is a war that has to be waged on all fronts, and it can be."

"Benevolence is not a commodity that needs to be distributed sparingly like cake or chocolate. It is away of being, an attitude, an intention to do good for those who enter our sphere of attention and the wish to alleviate their suffering. Loving animals also does not mean loving humans less. In fact, by also loving animals we love people better, because our benevolence is then vaster and therefore of better quality. Someone who loves only a selection of sentient beings, even of humanity, is the possessor of only fragmentary and impoverished benevolence."

"In the rich countries, depending on the species, 80 to 95 percent of the animals we eat are “produced” in industrial breeding operations where their short lives are an uninterrupted continuity of pain. All of that becomes possible the moment we begin to regard other living beings as objects for consumption or reserves of meat that we can deal with however we please."

"Kindness, altruistic love, and compassion are qualities that do not harmonize well with bias. Restricting the field of our compassion not only diminishes it quantitatively but also qualitatively. Applying our compassion only to certain beings, human beings in this case, makes it a lesser and a poorer thing."