The Alchemy of Desire...

All desire and all love are legitimate. You do not have to desire for a hundred years or love for a hundred for it to be true. The love of a fleeting moment, the desire of an instant, is as legitimate and true as that of three score and ten years.

- Tarun Tejpal

An unsettling thought.

Once in a while you stumble across ideas which remove the rust on your engine of life and set it on fire again...kick alive comatose beliefs and force you to wrestle with them...either make them voraciously alive, or die a bloody death..

But you are never ever the same again...

The face at the door...

We delude ourselves about the neatness of life. The truth is no life is neat. Those we see – and those we read about – seem to possess neatness only because we know so little about them. The hidden sprawl behind the face at the door is always vast. Every life is beset by its unseen demons – avarice, jealousy, deceit, lust, violence, paranoia.

There is no neatness in any life – great or small. It is only an illusion men foolishly pursue. The face at the door is just that – the face at the door.

All lived lives are a mess.