Kuruvilla Pandikattu on Life

"To find the joy of living/ Is to experience the joy of dying/ Where the pain of parting/ Lads to still deeper joy of becoming."

"If we can gratefully experience life, we shall be ready to encounter death gracefully."

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

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

"Love is Human: Own it/ Love is Bodily: Feel it/ Love is Divine: Revere it/ Love is Surrender: Transcend it/ Love is Life: Be!"

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

"Humans: The only animal who can laugh!/ We can enjoy the lighter side of life/ And we can also laugh at others/ And ridicule others!"

"Death stares at me/ Death pushes me forward/ Attracts me onwards/ And carries me on/ And that is my 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."

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

"The paradox of life is: Joy prepares one for more sadness and the other way around also."

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

"There is a deeper joy in emptying ourselves/ A deeper fulfilment in commitment/ A nobler life in letting ourselves go/ a truer self in not clinging on to my self!"

"Life Is Beautiful: Enjoy It/ Life Is Fragile: Foster It/ Life Is Relational: Share It/ Life Is Paradoxical: Encounter It/ Life Is Fascinating: Contemplate It/ Life Is: Be"

"Joy emerges from my little, timid life/ of everydayness and temerity."

"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."

"Death: frightening and inevitable./ It is necessary to give rise to better offspring./ It is necessary to give way to a better life-style/ It is necessary due to the law of nature."

"A parable is fascinating/ In its paradoxical invitation/ In the subversion of values/ In the unconditional acceptance of life/In its total affirmation of life/ Without ifs, buts and ..."

"Fiction is made of life/ Of earth and clay/ Of tears and laughter/ Of blood and sweat/ Hear them, the works of an author or a painter/ The singer and the clown/ Preserve the mystery of life."

"Real genuine joy is borne of sadness and sorrow."

"To be alive is to feel the joy of being./ In spite of the sorrows and joys of life/ The primary joy is that of being./ That of my existence. / That I exist is the most fundamental experience is joy for me!/ I, who do not deserve to, really exist./ I, who need not, do exist!/ I, who may not, do exist."