Devdutt Pattanaik Quotes

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

Only the ignorant think they alone are responsible for an outcome

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

Every human creates his own imagined version of the world, and of himself. Every human is therefore Brahma, creator of his own aham.Aham Brahmasmi, I am Brahma. Tat tvam asi, so are you.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

Fear is a constant, and faith is a choice. Fear comes from karma, from faith arises dharma.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

Sometimes, you can see more than me, but you pretend to know less so that I don’t feel intimidated by you. I do the same for you. We do not feel superior when the other is vulnerable; or inferior when we feel helpless. This is what sustains our relationship.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

~ Devdutt Pattanaik

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

~ Devdutt Pattanaik