Tuesday, October 07, 2008

An excerpt

There's a truth that's deeper than experience.It's beyond what we see or even what we feel.Its an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever and reality from perception.We're helpless usually in the face of it and the cost of knowing it,like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay.
It doesnt always help us to love the world but it does prevent us from hating the world.And the only way to know that truth is to share it,from heart to heart,just as Prabhakar told it to me, just as I'm telling it to you now.

GregoryDavid Roberts
~Shantaram

4 comments:

musketeer said...

Awesome!

That decides the next book on my shelf! :)

Anonymous said...

lets share truth frm heart to heart.... :)

Dhandal said...

share share..even i want to hear ;)

Abha said...

@ muski
its a good book. i selected to post here this part as its something completely different from da usual tone of narration in da book.

it comes as a breather after many painful passages.

@ anand and dhandal
gappa basa!!

ppl read only what they want to read...thats y Mumbai Mirror will live long!