Thwack !

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

— Albert Einstein

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

— Sophocles

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

— Bertrand Russell

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.

— Jim Rohn

The past, the present and the future,
all are one country living one immortal day

— BOOK
The Great and Secret Show

…the past for every one of us is a desert island; those who find themselves marooned there, are always alone.

Our life, it probably began inside of the ocean, about four thousand million years before now. Probably near hot places, like volcanoes, under the sea.

And for almost all of that long time, all the living things were water things, living inside the sea. Then, a few hundred million years ago, maybe a little more - just a little while, really, in the big history of the Earth - the living things began to be living on the land, as well.

But in a way you can say that after leaving sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

— BOOK
Shantaram
p373-374