Entropy…

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

Archive for February, 2008

Books & Life & Meditation-Introspection Entropy | 27 Feb 2008

Nights on Planet Earth

Heaven was originally precisely that: the starry sky, dating back to the earliest Egyptian texts, which include magic spells that enable the soul to be sewn in the body of the great mother, Nut, literally “night,” like the seed of a plant, which is also a jewel and a star.

The Greek Elysian fields derive from [...]

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 mein
lataktaa rahaa, koi ajeeb nashé mein
jhumtaa rahaa,
na [...]

Literature & Nature & Philosophy & 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 philosophers [...]

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 swing! the sky and the earth and [...]

Music Entropy | 03 Feb 2008

Singing the Praises of Apple Ads

Apple Mac Book Air Commercial where they put the laptop into an envelope. Well I love the song. Here is the .. You Tube of Yael Naim’s song “New Soul”: The Israeli singer is the latest to sing sweet for the Apple’s latest product Air.. Mystifying lyrics..
I’m a new soul I came [...]

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