Catholics From India

"Strength is not the absence of fear - it is the fear that kept showing up anyway."

"The more we try to control time, the more it controls us."

"We are the only creatures who build cages called comfort and then mourn our captivity."

"The moment you stop needing to be understood is when you become most understood."

"We trust strangers with our every day lives, yet fear being vulnerable with those we love."

"The wound is exactly where the light enters - and where it escapes."

"We prepare all our lives to live, and in doing so, forget to."

"Freedom is heaviest when you finally have nothing left to lose."

"The loudest voice in the room is usually the most afraid of silence."

"You must lose yourself completely before you can find yourself truly."

"The person who knows the most is knows very well little they know."

"The more you chase happiness, the faster it runs. Stand still. Be still. It finds you."

"We are evolution capable of eliminating - or enhancing - itself."

"This too will pass away. This includes me too."

"Time (kaal) is the art (kala) of being."

"The wisest time of all times is now. Now you are enlightened. Just now."

"“Being is; Time isn’t; time is; being isn’t!"

"Time brings everything to light and reveals the true worth and meaning of everyone and everything."

"The passing of time brings healing, sets our priorities right and provide us with new sense of meaning and urgency."

"Time is both a mystery and a miracle. A marvel and magic! We live in time and time lives in us."

"The spiritual freedom, once relished and tasted/ Is ready to give up everything."

"Freedom is basically a spiritual longing/ That can only be filled by a spiritual power."

"Freedom is the flow of life/ It is to be part of it/ And to let life flow through you."

"Freedom makes life not easy/ But noble and worthwhile!"

"Freedom is the expression of my truest self/ The cry of being deepest being!"

"To be free is not an ideal/ But a concrete, specific commitment/ Commitment to a person, to a cause to an issue!"

"My deepest human longing is/ Not to control the world and people/ But to control and realise myself!"

"Love is the source of our hope/ Love is the basis of our vision/ Love is the goal of our progress/ Love is our world."

"By sharing it [love] grows/ By giving it up it nurtures/ By dying it deepens./ By being it becomes."

"It [love] conquers nihilism and pessimism/Suicide and self-annihilation./ It conquers its own death. /It is the spark of fire that kindles life forever."

"You are a surprise for me./ Every moment./ You are unpredictable in your love./ You cannot be controlled by my love."

"In your presence, dearly beloved,/ I do not need to make up!/ I do not need to adorn myself!/ I can just be myself!/ What a relief!"

"Love enables the emergence of ecstasy/ That of enchantment with life"

"To love implies that I respect you/ Even though I may not like you always./ Love means that I freely revere you/ And leave you free even not to respond to me."

"There is a subtle way of dominating you/ By always making you dependent on me./ Love sees through and liberates you/ To stand on your own feet."

"Love is Human: Own it/ Love is Bodily: Feel it/ Love is Divine: Revere it/ Love is Surrender: Transcend it/ Love is Life: Be!"

"Thus genuine joy is contagious/ Reaching out, especially, to the underprivileged/ And in this sense, enables a circle of compassion/ Involving the larger community of life itself."

"To find the joy of living/ Is to experience the joy of dying/ Where the pain of parting/ Lads to still deeper joy of becoming."

"Calm and peaceful mind/ Prevents us from being a slave to the other/ Ana makde us in charge of/ Our own happiness and fulfilment."

"As ever approachable and never attainable,/ the journey ventures on and on/ Without limit and borders/ And with full openness toward the infinite possibilities."

"There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves/ A deeper fulfilment in commitment/ A nobler life in letting ourselves go/ a truer self in not clinging on to my self!"

"The joy that is everywhere/ Is the true joy of being/ The joy that is life itself!"

"The reward of joy is joy itself; not for its own sake; but for the sake of others."

"The secret of joy is: To know the world and its evil powers ... and still preserve the hope."

"After realising the depth of tragedy, we can and need to be joyful in hope."

"The paradox of life is: Joy prepares one for more sadness and the other way around also."

"There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves."

"Joy emerges from my little, timid life/ of everydayness and temerity."

"Real genuine joy is borne of sadness and sorrow."

"To be alive is to feel the joy of being./ In spite of the sorrows and joys of life/ The primary joy is that of being./ That of my existence. / That I exist is the most fundamental experience is joy for me!/ I, who do not deserve to, really exist./ I, who need not, do exist!/ I, who may not, do exist."