book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer
Age
- A tradition of social mores now discarded in the West is that the elders give love to the youth who extend respect to them for just being older.
- Recall the little joys and thrills you experienced as a child or in youth, such as the first steady ride on the bike or the feeling of the touch of your beloved, and compare them with all the
- subsequent achievements and prides of your life. Those little joys and thrills still shine out as stardust, brightening the horizons of your memory.
- In childhood, I was new to me. Happiness surged unbounded in me; everything was astonishing and challenging and life appeared reassuring and unending. Now the glimpses of that childhood renew unalloyed joy of being in me.
- As your age advances, you become increasingly conscious with impotent rage that you can live the life only once and one day your self will suddenly dissolve forever in the cosmic void.
- The realization of old age, an obstinate fact oflife; comes as an uneasy truth because the heart does not wish to grow old.
- Pain starts with growing age. End often comes in pain. He is lucky, who dies suddenly without knowing pain.
- The worst dread of self-regarding parents in this fragmented society is to be dependent on their children in infirmity or old age
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In every family, if one is lucky, there appears a figure so marvellously singular, so steeped in wisdom and warmth that he becomes a sort of personal North Star. Rasheed Ahmed Akhund was such a man; measured, principled and enigmatic. A man who, like the best of us, lived not for show but for substance. He belonged to a dwindling class of men who thought deeply, spoke sparingly and forgave quietly.
Subjects
“A person cannot say that reality is above human comprehension because, being human, he cannot know that there is anything above his comprehension"
- on Philosophy
“lf you attempt to prove existence of God with cold logic, you will land him in contradictions. If you feel him warmly, he is universal love and sense of perfection.”
- on God
Rasheed A. Akhund
Book of aphorisms by a Pakistani lawyer
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