Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Science and religion form the two pillars of our civilization and they need each other for the survival of ourselves.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Humans are the between before and beyond. Ever elusive and ever tensional

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life Is Beautiful: Enjoy It/ Life Is Fragile: Foster It/ Life Is Relational: Share It/ Life Is Paradoxical: Encounter It/ Life Is Fascinating: Contemplate It/ Life Is: Be

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Fiction is made of life/ Of earth and clay/ Of tears and laughter/ Of blood and sweat/ Hear them, the works of an author or a painter/ The singer and the clown/ Preserve the mystery of life.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

So is the song of life being sung/ By us and by all the living beings/ A melodious and harmonious song,/ Where the singer loses her own self/ And absorbs in the wonderful harmony of the song!/ An almost ecstatic experience.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Humans: The only animal who can laugh!/ We can enjoy the lighter side of life/ And we can also laugh at others/ And ridicule others!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

To discover meaning is somehow to see the relatedness with everything else,/ However vaguely it may be;./ To find meaning is to see the purpose of things,/ However hazily it may be.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Life is security and daring,/ Life is protection and risk,/ Life is openness and closure,/ It is safety and adventure.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

A parable is fascinating/ In its paradoxical invitation/ In the subversion of values/ In the unconditional acceptance of life/In its total affirmation of life/ Without ifs, buts and ...

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death: frightening and inevitable./ It is necessary to give rise to better offspring./ It is necessary to give way to a better life-style/ It is necessary due to the law of nature.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death has been the great leveler/ Of all honour, glory and name./ None can take anything with them/ To their tomb! Death! The sobering fact/ Of all our yearnings and longings!/ “What does it profit a man …”/ If he cannot take any of the things/ To his grave.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

To look straight into the eyes of my death/ My non-being/ To face myself as living and dying/ In the bare nakedness of my life and non-life.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death stares at me/ Death pushes me forward/ Attracts me onwards/ And carries me on/ And that is my life!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

To relish life and to relish death/ And to be grateful for both/ And to be open for more/ In both death and life.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

It is much worse to be dead when we are alive/ Dead by the fear of death, when we are not yet dead!/ The incredible paradox of worrying to avoid death / Being the very cause of death!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Death is only a step towards .../ In this celebration of love/ Death is a stepping stone/ Towards the fullness/ Towards which all of us/ Consciously and unconsciously long for.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

To be alive is to feel the joy of being./ In spite of the sorrows and joys of life/ The primary joy is that of being./ That of my existence. / That I exist is the most fundamental experience is joy for me!/ I, who do not deserve to, really exist./ I, who need not, do exist!/ I, who may not, do exist.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Real genuine joy is borne of sadness and sorrow.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Joy emerges from my little, timid life/ of everydayness and temerity.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

The paradox of life is: Joy prepares one for more sadness and the other way around also.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

After realising the depth of tragedy, we can and need to be joyful in hope.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

The secret of joy is: To know the world and its evil powers ... and still preserve the hope.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

The reward of joy is joy itself; not for its own sake; but for the sake of others.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

The joy that is everywhere/ Is the true joy of being/ The joy that is life itself!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves/ A deeper fulfilment in commitment/ A nobler life in letting ourselves go/ a truer self in not clinging on to my self!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

As ever approachable and never attainable,/ the journey ventures on and on/ Without limit and borders/ And with full openness toward the infinite possibilities.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Calm and peaceful mind/ Prevents us from being a slave to the other/ Ana makde us in charge of/ Our own happiness and fulfilment.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

To find the joy of living/ Is to experience the joy of dying/ Where the pain of parting/ Lads to still deeper joy of becoming.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Love is Human: Own it/ Love is Bodily: Feel it/ Love is Divine: Revere it/ Love is Surrender: Transcend it/ Love is Life: Be!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

There is a subtle way of dominating you/ By always making you dependent on me./ Love sees through and liberates you/ To stand on your own feet.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

To love implies that I respect you/ Even though I may not like you always./ Love means that I freely revere you/ And leave you free even not to respond to me.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Love enables the emergence of ecstasy/ That of enchantment with life

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

In your presence, dearly beloved,/ I do not need to make up!/ I do not need to adorn myself!/ I can just be myself!/ What a relief!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

You are a surprise for me./ Every moment./ You are unpredictable in your love./ You cannot be controlled by my love.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

It [love] conquers nihilism and pessimism/Suicide and self-annihilation./ It conquers its own death. /It is the spark of fire that kindles life forever.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

By sharing it [love] grows/ By giving it up it nurtures/ By dying it deepens./ By being it becomes.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Love is the source of our hope/ Love is the basis of our vision/ Love is the goal of our progress/ Love is our world.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

My deepest human longing is/ Not to control the world and people/ But to control and realise myself!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

To be free is not an ideal/ But a concrete, specific commitment/ Commitment to a person, to a cause to an issue!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Freedom is the expression of my truest self/ The cry of being deepest being!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Freedom makes life not easy/ But noble and worthwhile!

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Freedom is the flow of life/ It is to be part of it/ And to let life flow through you.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

Freedom is basically a spiritual longing/ That can only be filled by a spiritual power.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu

The spiritual freedom, once relished and tasted/ Is ready to give up everything.

— Kuruvilla Pandikattu