Kuruvilla Pandikattu

"Life is security and daring,/ Life is protection and risk,/ Life is openness and closure,/ It is safety and adventure."

"Love enables the emergence of ecstasy/ That of enchantment with life"

"To look straight into the eyes of my death/ My non-being/ To face myself as living and dying/ In the bare nakedness of my life and non-life."

"To relish life and to relish death/ And to be grateful for both/ And to be open for more/ In both death and life."

"Thus genuine joy is contagious/ Reaching out, especially, to the underprivileged/ And in this sense, enables a circle of compassion/ Involving the larger community of life itself."

"The joy that is everywhere/ Is the true joy of being/ The joy that is life itself!"

"It conquers nihilism and pessimism/Suicide and self-annihilation./ It conquers its own death. /It is the spark of fire that kindles life forever."

"Love is the source of our hope/ Love is the basis of our vision/ Love is the goal of our progress/ Love is our world."