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Don’t Quit So Easily
The first reason to be inspired is that Kabir, who lived in the 15th century, woke up to the fact that kali yuga, the era of destruction, was beginning. He saw its signs in the lies and corruption in the world around him. And he called it all out with the most noble clarity, majesty and divine ferocity. God knows we need that all now as kali yuga goes into its potentially lethal last phase.
I once read Kabir to a group of prisoners in Sing Sing and believe me, these guys were not the types to go for Rumi or Meister Eckhart. But Kabir lit them up. Tears flowed and cheers erupted. And one of them came up to me when I’d finished and said the perfect four words: “Kabir is my guy.”
— Andrew Harvey
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“The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.”
“Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?”
