The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'.
Koi bhul gaya hai hume,
Phir bhi hum usse yaad karte hai...
Koi chala gaya hai bahut dur humse,
Par aaj bhi hum uska intezaar karte hai...
Nahi jaante hum ki kya hai uske dil me,
Par aaj bhi hum usse bahut pyaar karte hai...
Jaane kaha gaye wo haseen din,
Ab to bas hum unhi yaadon ke sahare jiya karte hai...
Apni yaado me ham apko basana chahte hain,
Apne paas ham aapko bulana chahte hain,
Thak gaye hain ham aapko yaad karte karte,
Ab ham aapko yaad aana chahte hain.!!!
Sakoon apne dil ka maine kho diya,
Khud ko dard ke samandar mein dubo diya,
Jo thi kabhi mere muskurane ki wajah,
Aaj uski kami ne mere palko ko bhigo diya.
Near our vineyard there was a pear tree laden with fruit that was not attractive in either flavor or form. One night, when I [at the age of sixteen] had played until dark on the sandlot with some other juvenile delinquents, we went to shake that tree and carry off its fruit. From it we carried off huge loads, not to feast on, but to throw to the pigs, although we did eat a few ourselves. We did it just because it was forbidden.
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.