{"author":"R. N. Prasher","author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher","total_quotes":27,"quotes":[{"text":"Wind is on fire' - beautiful words. What causes the fire, what enhances it, and what finally extinguishes it by itself or by bringing in rainclouds, gets identified with it. Do breath and life have the same relationship with each other!","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["contemplation","fire","identity","musings","questioning","wind"],"id":782,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["darkness","ignorance","inspirational","knowledge","light","philosophy"],"id":3015,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["belief","existence","god","imagination","lie","non-existence","reality","truth"],"id":3605,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"As the dew drop slides down the leaf to wet the soil, they call it 'fall in love'. Yet, do we know the way up from the way down?","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["knowledge","logic","love","opinion"],"id":17285,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"Truth is always a quest and if it looks anything like a destination, it is proof that we are on to illusion. Thus, unique is each quest!","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["destination","goal","illusion","journey","quest"],"id":50138,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing.","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["children","future","mankind","old","past","present","society","survival","world"],"id":52339,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["experience","humanity","indifference","numbness","pain","pleasure"],"id":101599,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called 'seeing'. Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["believing","eyes","illusion","inspirational","motivational","perception","reality"],"id":105963,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"Humans are like Variables in mathematics, some Dependent, some Independent. Variables are in relationship but remain Variable. Of course, there are some Constants too both in mathematics and humans. Constants help define precisely the relationship between variables. Maybe, that is why humans keep adding (to problems), subtracting (from happiness), multiplying (what else, we are all over earth) and dividing (the earth among themselves).","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["constant","humans","mathematics","relationships","variable"],"id":150888,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"},{"text":"My Ten Commandments:1. God is a verb, not a noun.2. Prayers are important only if they lead to corresponding actions.3. Creation is an art. Science provides the tools for the artist. Anybody with the tools is not necessarily an artist.4. Religion involves exclusivity and superiority. Divinity is inclusive and involves humility.5. God by definition should be omnipotent. He should not require intermediation by priests and prophets.6. All prophets have displayed exclusivity and superiority. (Refer to #4 above)7. Rituals involve intermediation and often cruelty towards other fellows of creation. 8. Inclusivity and humility towards all creations of God is divine.9. Rituals are antithesis of the divine. Rituals indicate a god and his intermediaries who are greedy, arrogant, revengeful and cruel.10. God exists only for increasing happiness of all creatures.","author":"R. N. Prasher","tags":["cruelty","god","kindness","mankind","prayer","priests","religion","ritual"],"id":167868,"author_id":"R.+N.+Prasher"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}