Nirad C. ChaudhuriI understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight
About This Quote
The power of estrangement is a mysterious, but powerful force. In this quote, Ramachandra Guha defines the importance of estrangement. He says that “The basis for all large-scale social reforms is a social movement that seeks to change the way things are organized and organized people.” The changes must be made from a place of estrangement. Guha uses a personal example to explain how important it is to discover the root causes of a problem and start from there. He says, “When I was nine years old I suddenly realized that my greatest enemy was not those who hated me but those who didn’t know me, because it was only they could harm me!”
Some Similar Quotes
- The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.
- Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.
- Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
- Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
- No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What’s more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully...
More Quotes By Nirad C. Chaudhuri
- Quoting from Thomas MertonDialogues With SilenceThe true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that...
- The goal of human life, " says Ramakrishna, "is to meet God face to face." But the magic is this: if we look deeply into the face of all created things, we will find God. Therefore, savor the world, the body. Open it, explore it,...
- I understood that the attachment to myself and my image .. was actually taking me away from my self, away from this wonderful opportunity to just sit, just breathe, just feel the warm animal of my body, just feel the soft, sultry heat of June....
- Many of us ordinary folk have tasted these moments of "union" - on the ladder, in the pond, in the jungle, on the hospital bed. In the yogic view, it is in these moments that we know who we really are. We rest in our...