https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes Made with quotes from the book by Yhan Martel! en-us 2017-02-22 15:08:23 UTC 2017-02-24 16:19:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png KryssachuPokemon https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155477087 But I don't insist. I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. 

]]> 2017-02-22 15:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155477087 KryssachuPokemon https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155478524 Darkness? I was puzzled. I thought, Darkness is the last thing that religion is. Religion is light. Was he testing me? Was he saying, "Religion is darkness," the way he sometimes said in class things like "Mammals lay eggs," to see if someone would correct him? ("Only platypuses, sir.") 

]]> 2017-02-22 15:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155478524 KryssachuPokemon https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155479215 I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted to doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

]]> 2017-02-22 15:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155479215 KryssachuPokemon https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155479728 Brahman Saguna is Brahman made manifest to our limited senses, Brahman expressed not only in gods but in humans, animals, trees, in a handful of earth, for everything has a trace of the divine in it. The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from Atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite. If you ask me how Brahman and Atman relate precisely, I would say in the same way the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit relate: mysteriously.]]> 2017-02-22 15:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155479728 KryssachuPokemon https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155483060 But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster – the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous with God. 

]]> 2017-02-22 15:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155483060 KryssachuPokemon https://padlet.com/KryssachuPokemon/LifeOfPiQuotes/wish/155511938 The pandit spoke first. "Mr. Patel, Piscine's piety is admirable. In these troubled times it's good to see a boy so keen on God. We all agree on that." The imam and the priest nodded. "But he can't be a Hindu, a Christian and a Muslim. It's impossible. He must choose."

"I don't think it's a crime, but I suppose you're right," Father replied.

The three murmured in agreement and looked heavenward, as did Father, whence they felt the decision must come. Mother looked at me.

A silence fell heavily on my shoulders.

"Hmmm, Piscine?" Mother nudged me. "How do you feel about the question?"

"Bapu Gandhi said, 'All religions are true.' I just want to love God," I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face. 

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