Roland Merullo > Quotes

“try if you can to not stay in the small box of old thinking.”
― Roland Merullo, Dinner with Buddha: A Novel

“When we were first together, when you first brought me here to this beautiful place, you used to say you were glad you found a napoletana, remember? You said the northerners were sane and orderly and hardworking and maybe more honest, but that without the south, Italy would have too many brains and not enough heart. It would be like Europe having only Germany and Austria - no Spain, no France, no Italy. It would be a world of scientists without singers. I thought it was romantic. What happened to the man who said those things?”
― Roland Merullo, The Delight of Being Ordinary: A Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama

“I think sometimes this is why we meditate, because when we meditate we can make the thoughts slow, and in between the thoughts is becomes a space, and in this space you have maybe something like the emptiness, the not-any-word. Maybe then we start, just a little bit start, not finish, to see the mystery without the clothes on. The naked mystery of life. We start to see the world a little bit that it is not separate one thing from the other, one person from the other, that it is maybe all the energy of the mind of the Divine Engineer, everything connected.” To”
― Roland Merullo, Dinner with Buddha: A Novel

“I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title “organized religion.” What, I wondered, was disorganized religion?”
― Roland Merullo, Lunch with Buddha

“I have tried, I still try, to do what I can to ease the suffering on this earth, and I'm sure you do the same. The rest of it we have to allow to be, as painful as that is for us. We have to care for ourselves and our loved ones. We have to serve others to the extent we are able. And the rest of it we have to allow to be. It is awful, is it not, the human predicament? Awful and beautiful.”
― Roland Merullo, Dessert with Buddha