21.5.09
We are all too used to sounds. We are afraid of silence. The t.v. sound, the sound of people talking,something or the other. Even mentally there is a lot going on. Not a moment of peace and queit. To the extent, we are unnerved of somebody else's silence.
For the past few days I feel like not talking. Not out of anger, but just to be queit. Do my work silently, bring a calmness to my mind, buzzing with thoughts. I have been trying not to be angry, frustrated, to stop daydreaming. But to the people around me I seem to have become very serious. To them it seems - something is troubling me. But all I want to do is look inward. Start a different journey. Travel a different path. I have had glimpses of my inner strengths and joys. They were but glimpses. Now I would like to seriously seek them out. Explore them. To do that I need calmness. Externally and internally. Otherwise I might miss out on the beauty of the inner light. But then I live in a world of noise. A world of cacophony. A world so afraid of silence. A world so bad in communication and lacking in, confidence that everything has to be repeaated again and again. And here I am seeking a world of silence.
For the past few days I feel like not talking. Not out of anger, but just to be queit. Do my work silently, bring a calmness to my mind, buzzing with thoughts. I have been trying not to be angry, frustrated, to stop daydreaming. But to the people around me I seem to have become very serious. To them it seems - something is troubling me. But all I want to do is look inward. Start a different journey. Travel a different path. I have had glimpses of my inner strengths and joys. They were but glimpses. Now I would like to seriously seek them out. Explore them. To do that I need calmness. Externally and internally. Otherwise I might miss out on the beauty of the inner light. But then I live in a world of noise. A world of cacophony. A world so afraid of silence. A world so bad in communication and lacking in, confidence that everything has to be repeaated again and again. And here I am seeking a world of silence.
20.5.09
Greed and need
We seem to have lost the capacity to differentiate between our needs and our greed. Look around us. We are consuming everything more than what we need. We travel too much, we talk too much, we eat too much and spend beyond our means. Are we all thinking that there is no tommorow. If so then why should we bother. Just live for today. If we are going to have a long life, then why bother rushing through life. Let's relax and do things in a steady pace, why run to a destination we have no knowledge of.
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