38 Quotes by Ashim Shanker

Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.

There are ribbons that ensnare, itseems, though I cannot feel theserestraints: a tangle of sharedunderstandings, expectations, values,and obligations that demarcate sentientboundaries and frame the articulationof essence. Yet, there is also something rather arbitrary and inadequate aboutthese ribbons and their juxtaposition.

All probabilities havestacked up to this imminent form, andall causes have aligned according tothis pathway and not another. I couldotherwise have been another complexof particles, another material altogether,and perhaps also another form, for howmuch does the material influence thefingers that shape it? Does the materialsimilarly shape the whims of itssculptor?

There’s an overlapping echo of waves dancing in my brain, and I can hear amidst it also the skittering exodus of a thousand crustaceans over the shifting sands of Riptide. Are they exploring? Scavenging? Migrating possibly. I cannot see them in this darkness, yet hold in mind briefly the image of their silhouettes against the shimmering sea reflecting the crimson evening sky, and through this immersion it becomes difficult to know what is real...

Writing creatively is a process of self-consumption that requires one to dive deeply inside of oneself with no guarantee of reemergence.

What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?

All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?