To paraphrase a cliche, some books like people come into our life for a reason, season or lifetime. They are like connections that will happen if and only when they are supposed to. A line from a volume of poetry that you were going to return unread, something that jumps at you while browsing through a random pop-psychology book selling at a Dollar Store or even a the words out of a character's mouth in a work of fiction or a movie - they can all become imbued with the deepest significance in our lives depending on timing. At a time when I struggled with having to stand up in defiance to someone who was close to me and hurt me relentlessly, I recalled a line from the Kathamrita : “One should hiss to bad persons to frighten them away, so that they may not harm you later on. One must not inject poison into them and injure them." Some years later, I would read The Road Less Traveled where the author talks about anger and the reason to regulate and have th...
crossings as in traversals, contradictions, counterpoints of the heart though often not..