Quotes from Vimala Thakar

Life is in the here and now. Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.

Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.

The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.

Friendship inspires and enriches the lives of those who come together.

All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They have ceased to retain their original smell and fragrance. Do you call it life— this effort at the preservation of a phantom freshness in something that is withered and gone?