Sunday, April 08, 2007

Peace......

Friend of mine has been telling me very long time to read "The God of Small Things." by Arundhati Roy, and I just finished reading it with my girl. Here are few youtube clips about the author. HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.

Here are what she said to a friend, of not giving up, fighting for the rights of the voiceless is not only about winning or losing election, or court cases....


"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." Arundhati Roy

We could not stop the Iraq War, we are not able to stop the crisis in Darfur on the time being, even with the largest people coming out on in the streets of the world, we could not prevent the death of over 3000 Americans and over 500,000 Iraqis, I wonder if the large Multi-National Corporations are keep winning by taking the world to war after another, and if that keeps not to stop what will be left on rest of us? Read what Arundhati Roy is saying here, and understand that we have work to do, for peace and for love in this world. There is bigger lessons on here, in that we should never give up, even when things are not going on our way.

4 Comments:

Blogger CindyCinlou said...

Wow! That is deep. There is so much in this world that is bad and here we are creating more problems instead of trying to fix them.

8:57 AM  
Blogger Rocketstar said...

"To never forget your own insignificance."

-- one thing I never forget but I don't know if others think about it too often.

6:04 PM  
Blogger celestialmtn said...

It's been a long time, bro... how have you been?

This book sounds interesting. I shall have to put it on my reading list. And I like the whole quote, especially "To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple."

1:46 PM  
Blogger Dem Soldier said...

SOG & Rocket...pick up this book, U will like it.


Nova..Thnks sis doing great...Hope U and the baby R doing great.

10:10 PM  

Post a Comment

<< Home