Entropy…

Both what you run from and what you yearn for are within you

Archive for February, 2008

Life &Meditation-Introspection &Poetry Entropy | 22 Feb 2008

I Had Planted A Sapling…

Wish to share my literary mentor and prolifically Creative soul Max Babi‘s Urdu Poetry Transcreated In English by him.. I Had Planted A Sapling… Original in Urdu : Pauda ek lagaya tha, baghké banjarsé kauné mein- ek billaski jaanko, badé chaavsé qatra-ba-qatra zindagi pilayi thi : kambakht jeeta rahaa martaa rahaa sisasktaa rahaa mautké munh [...]

Poetry &Sprituality Entropy | 20 Feb 2008

Between Going And Coming

Excerpts from Octavio Paz‘ speech at the Nobel Banquet, December- 1990 At the close of this century we have discovered that we are part of a vast system (or network of systems) ranging from plants and animals to cells, molecules, atoms and stars. We are a link in “the great chain of being”, as the [...]

Poetry- Physics Entropy | 14 Feb 2008

Sublimation Point

One pleasure of poetry is in speed of movement. Another is in the slow curve of the mind in response to that speed: We gradually embrace, in the dreamy slow motion of thought, the meaning of each quick gesture. The word “quick” includes among its meanings the ideas “alive” and “sensitive.” And the word “ponder” [...]

Sprituality &Sufi Insight Entropy | 11 Feb 2008

Between the Poles of the Conscious

Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing: Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. Millions of beings are there: the sun and the moon in their courses are there: Millions of ages pass, and the swing goes on. All [...]

Life &Meditation-Introspection &Poetry Entropy | 01 Feb 2008

Boundaries

Boundaries There is a place where the town ends and the fields begin. It’s not marked but the feet know it, also the heart, that is longing for refreshment and, equally, for repose. Someday we’ll live in the sky. Meanwhile, the house of our lives is the world. The fields, the ponds, the birds. The [...]