The devotee engages to the best of his or her ability into the play of life, fulfilling his or her role on this earth as student, employee, husband, wife…But at the heart of the devotee is a burning desire for the Lord.
‘New’ is a beautiful word which opens up many possibilities. If every day can be viewed as ‘New’ then, life blossoms - like new leaves, buds, flowers and fruit - full of colour, fragrance, taste and rasa: the very essence of living.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
-Ambrose Bierce
This new life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
"White Nights"
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may… meet with great misfortunes.
-Aristotle
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
