KRISHNA MURTHY ANNIGERI VASUDEVA RAO Books & Quotes

“As long as women are dependent on men, the exploitation would continue. Women should perhaps stop looking at themselves through the looking glass of the male mind. I do not know why many women still consider marriage and children as the ultimate fulfilment of their lives: that is precisely the mindset taken advantage of by men.”

Women Exploitation Mind Set

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“Our relationships with things and people define us. You need to watch a person in his relationships to determine what kind of a person he is.”

People Relationships Things

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

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“To walk away from God is to walk away from fear.”

God Fear

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“The earth may die. Life may get extinguished. The civilization we have carefully nurtured with great effort may get destroyed. The doomsday scenario may play itself out unless we move away from the caveman mentality of the past in which we are stuck. The caveman feared his neighbour just as he was terrified of the wild beasts and the forces of nature that overwhelmed him. Today, we fear our neighbour more than wild beasts or natural calamities since very sophisticated instruments of destruction are at his disposal. That is not an improvement on caveman mentality. There seems to be no chance for survival of humankind or life itself unless the suspicious, predatory and adversarial nature of his relationship with his neighbours and with nature itself changes. Culture is responsible for this state of affairs.”

Life Earth Nature Relationship

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“It is essential to unclutter the mind incessantly, as it constantly generates debris in the form of unnecessary, useless and unhelpful thoughts. That can happen when we create spaces in our minds. A simple mind is a nimble mind, a spare, beautiful mind.”

Mind Unclutter

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“A drooping twist of his mouth had replaced the slightly mischievous smile. One could discern in his eyes, an uncertainty, a vacancy, a slowly creeping sense of certain death. Our words of reassurance were hollow and devoid of confidence: he ignored them. His bouts of sobbing became more frequent, but he didn't leap back to normality as he did earlier: he withdrew into a flat sullenness. It was as if he was bereft of all emotions, and there was nothing to express. There was just that waiting for death.”

Death Waiting Vacancy

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“The 'self', which is nothing but thought, cannot contemplate its dissolution and invents the fiction of immortality, eternity. Who has ever seen or known eternity! It is a projection, just a fanciful notion. What we know is that everything is ephemeral, everything passes, and everything changes its form.”

Self Eternity Immortality Ephemeral

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“The universe is neither particularly malevolent nor benevolent to human beings: it is blissfully indifferent. It has no specific interest in us.”

Universe Human Beings

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

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“When we question the universe, we interrogate it in terms that we understand. We have made those terms; we have invented the framework of questioning. When we receive answers from the universe, the answer is in terms of our invention. They are valid within that framework.”

Universe Framework Question Answer

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“In a world so invested in effort, it is difficult to embrace the idea of not trying hard.”

Effort Not Trying Hard

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

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“You can't change people's minds: most minds harden before encountering diverse ideas. After their minds are ossified, people spend the rest of their lives seeking corroboration of their opinions: the mind's doors are closed and bolted from inside. Like a house that allows entry only to known guests, the mind welcomes only concepts that validate the conclusions and opinions it has already formed.”

Opinions Minds Closed

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“You have to endure your pain. You cannot inflict it on anyone; you cannot transmit it; you cannot share it. That is the nature of physical pain. It takes you into your body, reminding you that you have a body that needs your care.”

Body Physical Pain

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

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“There is a landscape and an atmosphere inside: narratives waiting to unfold; moods to live through; feelings that enliven; thoughts that illuminate; memories; nostalgia; dreams; hopes; uncertainties; insecurities; fears; desires; passions; obsessions; the occasional calm; the turbulences; peace; joy. The journey within could be as exciting as a journey to an undiscovered world. There is a universe waiting to be known.”

Inside Journey Within

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“Most knowledge is uncertain, and our ability to fool ourselves is phenomenal. Considering the ease with which we delude ourselves, it is healthy to be sceptical about our certainties.”

Knowledge Delude Sceptical

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

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“All gods live in permanent darkness: they are created in ignorance and nurtured in fear. They are inseparable from the fear, for they are the fear.”

Fear Darkness Gods

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

“When we shine the light, darkness dissolves.”

Light Darkness

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“When we employ the rhetoric of war, make incessant preparations for war, compete for superiority and supremacy in weaponry, the outcome cannot be peace.”

War Peace Weaponry

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

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“What we mean by 'reality' is the description of reality. I do not know whether there is a reality apart from or beyond that description. If there is, there is no way of knowing it.”

Reality Knowing Description

Book:FLOWERS OF STARDUST

Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST

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