Earnest Cogitation
By Edgar Lee Masters
My mind was a mirror:
It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew,
In youth my mind was just a mirror,
In a rapidly flying car,
Which catches and loses bits of the landscape.
Then in time
Great scratches were made on the mirror,
Letting the outside world come in,
And letting my inner self look out,
For this is the birth of the soul in sorrow,
A birth with gains and losses.
The mind sees the world as a thing apart,
And the soul makes the world at one with itself,
A mirror scratched reflects no image-
And this is the silence of wisdom.
Found this poem in a small booklet given by Guds. Worth pondering.
Btw,
If-then-do Else-do commands don't work in life. Life's not a program.
And whatta beautiful weather outside :)
Cheerios
My mind was a mirror:
It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew,
In youth my mind was just a mirror,
In a rapidly flying car,
Which catches and loses bits of the landscape.
Then in time
Great scratches were made on the mirror,
Letting the outside world come in,
And letting my inner self look out,
For this is the birth of the soul in sorrow,
A birth with gains and losses.
The mind sees the world as a thing apart,
And the soul makes the world at one with itself,
A mirror scratched reflects no image-
And this is the silence of wisdom.
Found this poem in a small booklet given by Guds. Worth pondering.
Btw,
If-then-do Else-do commands don't work in life. Life's not a program.
And whatta beautiful weather outside :)
Cheerios
8 Comments:
m sure a lot many ppl are glad to see a new post. and sure this is a beautiful poem.
My fav lines :
A mirror scratched reflects no image-
And this is the silence of wisdom.
आएना देख कर ये तसली हुई !
हम-को भी ईस घर मै जानता है कोइ !
:-)
Little fight in writing hindi, write after long time naa.
By the way, aapne desh ka vi weather mast hai, type 2 rain, all way wind ...
Ohh... already 2 comments... good... hey also to remind u...there no CTRL+Z in life... :)
@Enjoy Life: Definitely those are my fav. ones too. :)
@V: Wow..m missing India. :)
@anonymous: Verily truly said :)
some great lines there
so let me get this one straight soul sees through the scratches and the scratches are symbolic of wisdom the rest of the mirror is the mind which sees the world one image at a time and soul is one with the world
soul sees through the eyes of wisdom and mind just sees the outershell of our world (i think that is lil bit unfair to the mind!!)
yup i think that is bout it
n how went the presentation
very nice poem indeed..
well, it seems there have been too many posting since I visited blog last time. Well was busy just like you ... in thesis submission :D . All the best for your defence. scheduled on 26th right?
@Sue No need to feel homesick: Visit your backyard virtually
Download this http://earth.google.com and just direct yourself to your courtyard... Its amazing !!!!
Yeah Nishit..on the 26th.
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