Few minutes back, I was wondering on what shall I write!
There was some desperate need coming out to write something.
Why to write? for whom to write? were not questions bothering at those time.
As something compelling, to seat and write.
There struck an idea to just ask google to provide link of random quotes or random quote generator. So I did went to google, and gave this keywords:random quote.
and got this as a result
two thoughts flashed on the screen of mind. First thought was to go on images and select random one. Another one said, first link looks good go for it. I followed the later one and clicked on the link given below:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
And How wonderful the result !!!
first quote, resonated with on going trend of life and flow got thrust.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -
William James (1842 - 1910)
How to use this life is a big question. Last week similar question came and stood in front of me. Instantaneously, I remembered what my friend Jonathan had said once.
“Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live!
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!”
Still, this life is lived between eating and sleeping. force, fuel which keeps me flowing is drying. All those big ideals covering social, financial, political, humanitarian all now sounds so weak and dumb. Thoughts are in riots and afraid if they are shared openly or got some force, it will stand against the current. There is scepticism too. Whatever that may be, right now something from within is coming to focus on positive. To focus on what one ought to be.
I want to fly!My tree on which I got second birth. On which, I came out of my shall. On whose branch I started learning lessons of flight. That belongingness with tree can't be obstacle on my flying. Tree of family, Tree of previous occupation, Tree of preferences, desires and so on. How many roots are required to cut, before I learn and fly. Sometime it seems roots are necessary, one needs to preserve them. They are the one, who had given all and what I am today.
No, If you want to fly. If you want a freedom. You have to cut and come out from this bondage of those roots. Only thing lies for you is sky. sky. sky.
And from that sky now on my small flight, I look down and find this.
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Instantly something started rolling within. Yet I do not have such a profound experience of life and learning. Still this sounds very familiar. How much ungrateful we are to all those teachers who has taught us meaningful things in life. Like that professor in my university, who hardly came for lecture from whom I learnt that how to learn on your own. Life events and beings part of that moment and space teaches so many things. Next week, in India there will be celebration of 'Guru Poornima' giving respect and salutation to teacher who kindle the fire within. Let this be a small occasion in life, here I offer my respect and show gratefulness to all those events and beings who taught me in that strange way, as in quote.
I am yet not out from Jonathan.
“He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
What is this longing about? Why Jonathan appeared to me? I want to read that book again.
Lessons of flying are hard. sometime it looks like, you have to hanger around without any support. Oh! Wait a minute. What did I say, without any support?
Foolish! You have to learn to see beyond. There is bigger support of air, through which this life runs. there is water to in his hidden form. support is doesn't come only from unmoving and hard. It comes from subtle, moving elements, like AIR.
So far you took support of those things who are solid and not moving. You kept your trust on them. But forgot in blow of wind all gets vanish. Now you have to learn to take support from moving and unseen. Keep faith on it. Even if you don't know where they are leading you.
Now let me end this random thoughts, which now doesn't look like a random, but closely woven net.
"THOU art like the wind upon the sea, driving the boat back ashore until it is at last loaded with all the goods necessary for the long voyage. Thou wouldst not have us embark thoughtlessly. Thy servitors must be ready for all eventualities, must be capable of answering all demands, satisfying all needs." -
The Mother, November 16,1914, Prayers & Meditations, Pg No. 275
There was some desperate need coming out to write something.
Why to write? for whom to write? were not questions bothering at those time.
As something compelling, to seat and write.
There struck an idea to just ask google to provide link of random quotes or random quote generator. So I did went to google, and gave this keywords:random quote.
and got this as a result
two thoughts flashed on the screen of mind. First thought was to go on images and select random one. Another one said, first link looks good go for it. I followed the later one and clicked on the link given below:
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
And How wonderful the result !!!
first quote, resonated with on going trend of life and flow got thrust.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -
William James (1842 - 1910)
How to use this life is a big question. Last week similar question came and stood in front of me. Instantaneously, I remembered what my friend Jonathan had said once.
“Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live!
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!”
Still, this life is lived between eating and sleeping. force, fuel which keeps me flowing is drying. All those big ideals covering social, financial, political, humanitarian all now sounds so weak and dumb. Thoughts are in riots and afraid if they are shared openly or got some force, it will stand against the current. There is scepticism too. Whatever that may be, right now something from within is coming to focus on positive. To focus on what one ought to be.
I want to fly!My tree on which I got second birth. On which, I came out of my shall. On whose branch I started learning lessons of flight. That belongingness with tree can't be obstacle on my flying. Tree of family, Tree of previous occupation, Tree of preferences, desires and so on. How many roots are required to cut, before I learn and fly. Sometime it seems roots are necessary, one needs to preserve them. They are the one, who had given all and what I am today.
No, If you want to fly. If you want a freedom. You have to cut and come out from this bondage of those roots. Only thing lies for you is sky. sky. sky.
And from that sky now on my small flight, I look down and find this.
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Instantly something started rolling within. Yet I do not have such a profound experience of life and learning. Still this sounds very familiar. How much ungrateful we are to all those teachers who has taught us meaningful things in life. Like that professor in my university, who hardly came for lecture from whom I learnt that how to learn on your own. Life events and beings part of that moment and space teaches so many things. Next week, in India there will be celebration of 'Guru Poornima' giving respect and salutation to teacher who kindle the fire within. Let this be a small occasion in life, here I offer my respect and show gratefulness to all those events and beings who taught me in that strange way, as in quote.
I am yet not out from Jonathan.
“He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of his being, that whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual or superstition or limitation in any form.
"Set aside," came a voice from the multitude, "even if it be the Law of the Flock?"
"The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other.”
What is this longing about? Why Jonathan appeared to me? I want to read that book again.
Lessons of flying are hard. sometime it looks like, you have to hanger around without any support. Oh! Wait a minute. What did I say, without any support?
Foolish! You have to learn to see beyond. There is bigger support of air, through which this life runs. there is water to in his hidden form. support is doesn't come only from unmoving and hard. It comes from subtle, moving elements, like AIR.
So far you took support of those things who are solid and not moving. You kept your trust on them. But forgot in blow of wind all gets vanish. Now you have to learn to take support from moving and unseen. Keep faith on it. Even if you don't know where they are leading you.
Now let me end this random thoughts, which now doesn't look like a random, but closely woven net.
"THOU art like the wind upon the sea, driving the boat back ashore until it is at last loaded with all the goods necessary for the long voyage. Thou wouldst not have us embark thoughtlessly. Thy servitors must be ready for all eventualities, must be capable of answering all demands, satisfying all needs." -
The Mother, November 16,1914, Prayers & Meditations, Pg No. 275
