Raimon Quotes & Sayings

... If I wanna shit I am going to buy it from the shop... what I need now is a friend on which I can count on... you know the drill. — Deyth Banger

When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on. — Nora Ephron

I wanted him to prove it could be done. — Maggie Stiefvater

God is so great that the greatness precludes existence. — Raimon Panikkar

According to statistics, one person out of five is disturbed. If there are four people around you who seem normal, that's not good. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. — Confucius

The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible. — Raimon Panikkar

will impede our investigations. — Raimon Weber

A girl should be two things:: classy & fabulous — Coco Chanel

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian. — Raimon Panikkar

Raimon Casellas is the writer (not Raimoun)
Alan Yates the translator
Eva Bosch the editor — Casellas Raimoun Yates Alan

Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure. — Raimon Panikkar

Raimon was amused to see that the countess Carenza grew more beautiful by the day: her expression has softened and the pouches under her eyes had disappeared. She carried herself confidently, secure in the knowledge that she was fascinating to one pair of eyes at least. — Lisa Goldstein

As Raimon and Desire listened, Aimeric sang of Carenza's beauty. He sang of the oaths he had given to his lord, the count Bertran, and of another oath, one that he had sworn to Countess Carenza in his heart. He would keep her at the forefront of his thoughts, he would cherish her forever. They would never satisfy their desire, never even kiss one another, but he would be faithful to her until he died. — Lisa Goldstein

The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. — Maya Angelou

The first rule in making money is not to lose it. — Steven J. Lee

...if I do not take my intellectual vocation seriously, putting it before everything else even at the risk of appearing inhuman, then I am also incapable of helping people in more concrete and proximate ways. Conversely, if I am not alert and ready to save people from a conflagration, that is to say, if I do not take my spiritual calling in all earnestness, sacrificing to it all else, even my own life, then I shall be unable to help in rescuing the manuscript. If I do not involve myself in the concrete issues of my time, and if I do not open my house to all the winds of the world, then anything I produce from an ivory tower will be barren and cursed. Yet if I do not shut doors and windows in order to concentrate on this work, then I will not be able to offer anything of value to my neighbors. — Raimon Panikkar

In consumer life we become what we consume-disposable junk to be used and thrown away. — Bryant McGill

"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events. — Raimon Panikkar