My Daemon

Who I am Meant to be...

My Favourite Statements from LOTR and the Matrix trilogy

From the Matrix

1. There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path
2. I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world.. without you. A world without rules or controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you

From Lord of The Rings

Frodo: It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him when he had the chance.

Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.

Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

Where is the Horse and the Rider?

Where is the Horn that was blowing?

They have passed like Rain on the Mountains,

Like Wind in the Meadows.

The Days have gone down in the West,Behind the Hills,

Into Shadow.How did it come to this?

~ King Theoden

Frodo : I can't do this, Sam.

Sam: It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you… that meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going… because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

Put aside the Ranger... become who you were born to be!

Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.

Gandalf: End? No, it doesn't end here. Death is just another path . . . one which we must all take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...

Gandalf: ...And then you see it.

Pippin: What, Gandalf? See what?Gandalf: White shores . . . and beyond. A far green country, under a swift sunrise.

Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.

Gandalf: [Softly:] No... No it isn't
"This day does not belong to one man, but to all. Let us together rebuild this world that we may share in the days of peace." ~ Aragorn

A Thought

We all are living in an interesting period where technology is taking over and governing our life. The old is nearly behind us and the dawn of the coming years is closer. The whole world seems to be excited about it’s advent. Sometimes we wonder why we are so excited about it. What is wrong in the present that we are dreaming of the future? Those who are compassionate and kind say how can we be happy when the world is full of pain, suffering, war and violence. Animals suffer from human abuse and torture, children from mal-nutrition and child abuse, the poor from poverty and hunger and the rest of the world suffers from dehumanizing war and violence. Where is the happiness that we are looking for? Is it in material gain that the modern world or is it in wiping the tears of the suffering and the aching? This is the question we have to ask ourselves. In this sense the present looks bleak, dark and hopeless.
We are all pretending that we are happy, but are we really? Or are we living under anesthesia and have become numb towards the pain of others? I think there is a corner in every heart that hurts and cries, but few have time and sensitivity to listen to that inner voice. Many times we think that what difference does it make if I am not compassionate. Organizations and social workers do that. Well remember one thing… “Every drop of water makes an ocean. One drop cannot say I do not make the ocean, other drops do.
In these trying times the world is now looking up towards the coming millennium for a happier, healthier and peaceful future for the entire living community. Let us therefore collectively word for the happiness and peace of the Universe.
Finally I would like to say in these words ‘I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now, for I shall not pass through this way again.

My Speech

This was what I said for my Public Speaking competition.

Good Morning Teachers and Friends. My topic is "An eye for an eye makes the world blind. Before we start let us go to the years when Gandhiji started the non-cooperation movement. Here is a familiar scene you may have heard of.
Nehruji said "The Indians have done nothing wrong in the Chaura Chauri Incident. They were just paying the British back for what they did. It’s an Eye for an Eye..." "..makes the world Blind" continued Mahatma Gandhi.
We may have heard the first part commonly, but with the continuation it makes the most sense. Let us delve deeper to extricate the true meaning of this line.
The first part refers to revenge. If you take revenge for everything, it can never end. You take revenge. Then your victim also does the same. It goes on. Soon innocent people also fall prey to your anger. A very good example is the Bush and Al Qaeda conflict. We also take revenge amongst ourselves. We revenge every evil that has happened to us and exaggerate it. Do we have to take revenge? Is it not simpler to end the topic with silent non active resistance?
Tolerance was the weapon Mahatma Gandhi used. And it worked because when the doer of injustice saw the silent pain of the sufferer, at some stage it hurt his conscience and brought about a fundamental change in attitude and led to remorse, and genuine reconciliation. Like anger, revenge feeds on itself. You remove anger, and you remove revenge, and the basis of the revenge collapses.In fact silent tolerance is a genuine non-cooperation with what the revengeful person is trying to do. He is trying to cause pain and elicit a violent response from the sufferer, which justifies the revengeful person to cause more suffering to the sufferer. If you look back at history, during the Second World War, direct and indirect deaths arising from the war worldwide are estimated to be around 40 million people. It is quite conceivable that if a non-cooperation and non violent movement at the doorsteps of the Germans would have hurt the conscience of the German public and removed the power of Hitler. Let us not think it would have been easy; but perhaps the death toll may have been much lower. In our times, the non violent movement of Martin Luther King in the United States did more to improve the plight of the blacks, and uplifting their image in society, than all the violent killing that preceded Martin Luther King.Revenge is the curtain that hides the light of the truth of the true us. To sum it all i use this quotation

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always."

Nilay

An Interview with God

www.interviewwithgod.com>
This site was beautiful so I thought i would publicize it. View the presentation. Its really nice.
I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time” I said.

God smiled.
“My time is eternity.”“What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...“That they get bored with childhood,they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.”“That they lose their health to make money...and then lose their money to restore their health.”“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”"That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.”

God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.

And then I asked...“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is let themselves be loved.”“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”“To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.”“To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them.” “To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most,but is one who needs the least.”“To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.”“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”“To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else you would like your children to know?"God smiled and said, “Just know that I am here... always.”