15 Jan 2017

So what is it that drives us, the white man, the white woman, time and again to India? My explanation is only one of many others but I don’t know a more coherent one. We want to know how a human being, that is to say an Indian human being, can be so happy. How is it possible? With nothing, almost nothing. While we don’t succeed - or let’s say hardly succeed - in being happy. At the same time we are loaded with prosperity junk like never before. We have so much and still: not a gram does our heart become any lighter, more beaming. And they have so little and so much lightness. Of course this is a cliché I’m repeating which is not always valid. But a hundred millions of times it’s true.”