Meditation-Introspection & Sufi Insight Entropy | 29 Jun 2006
If your eyes are not deceived by the mirage
Do not be proud of the sharpness of your understanding;
It may be your freedom from this illusion
Is due to the imperfection of your thirst.
Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi [ Sufi Philosopher ]
To gaze at a river made of time and water
And remember Time is another river.
To know we stray like a river
and our faces vanish like water.
To feel that waking is another dream
that dreams of not dreaming and that the death
we fear in our bones is the death
that every night we call a dream.
To see in [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Thought Provoking Entropy | 03 Jun 2006
The importance of the grey zone
Joyce Carol Oates, asked to describe her writing process, said, “I clean my own house.” For a minute, I thought she’d misunderstood the question, but then I saw: Cleaning the house gives her time to think, the mental leisure for ideas to bounce around and connect in different ways. When [...]