As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran.
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was “What’s your alma mater?” I told him, “Books.” You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I’m not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.
One of my brothers read a lot. His head was forever in some book.
My alma mater was books, a good library.
Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
Life is a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself. The end of one physical incarnation is like the end of a chapter, on some level setting up the beginning of another.
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
Whatever we put out, it’s coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
My hope is that I’m getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
I really got into Osho’s books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.
Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.