http://www.well.com/~jct/
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2007/mar/24ugk.htm

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS:



A messiah is the one who leaves a mess behind him in this world.



Religions have promised roses but you end up with only thorns.



Going to the pub or the temple is exactly the same; it is quick fix.



The body has no independent existence. You are a squatter there.



God and sex go together. If God goes sex goes, too.



All experiences however extraordinary they may be are in the area of sensuality.



Man cannot be anything other than what he is. Whatever he is, he will create a society that mirrors him.



Love and hate are not opposite ends of the same spectrum; they are one and the same thing. They are much closer than kissing cousins.



Gurus play a social role, so do prostitutes.



By using the models of Jesus, Buddha, or Krishna we have destroyed the possibility of nature throwing up unique individuals.



It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.



All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.



You eat not food but ideas. What you wear are not clothes, but labels and names.

The plain fact is that if you don’t have a problem, you create one. If you don’t have a problem you don’t feel that you are living.

That messy thing called ‘mind’ has created many destructive things. By far the most destructive of them all is God.

Atmospheric pollution is most harmless when compared to the spiritual and religious pollution that have plagued the world.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, where as culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

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Speech by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times....

"When we were young kids growing up in America, we were told to eat our
vegetables at dinner and not leave them. Mothers said, 'think of the
starving children in India and finish the dinner.' And now I tell my
children: 'Finish your maths homework. Think of the children in India
who would make you starve, if you don't.'"

That is so sad. I remember reading him and about him to satisfy my intellectual curiosities when I had Philosophy as one of my majors in University. He was such a lone traveller, never really belonged to anything or anyone. He was a pure thinker, always honest to himself. His writings can force anyone with a philosophical and open bend of mind, to have a re-look at just about everything in life. I do feel repentant today to have just opened and closed his books at the University level, wish I had tried to discover more of him. He was truly a force and I am very sorry to see him go.