Mary's note: This is a guest post from Zen Habits by Leo Babauta (zenhabits.net) Please let me know if you like this and if you'd enjoy seeing more of the same.
Life is Poetry
‘My life is my message.’ - Gandhi
Each of us lives a life that expresses who we are, reacts to the world around us, shows our passions, reflects our deep river of feeling and being.
We might sing out in joy, through our words and actions and expressions, we might hide in fear and pain, we might lash out in anger. Every thing we do, everything we are, expresses.
Gandhi’s message was his life, and yours is your life. What message are you giving the world, through your actions, how you live, how you treat others, what you accomplish, how you choose to be, every moment of every day?
Are you an angry rant? A ballad? An epic poem?
Perhaps a sonnet, a limerick, a haiku?
If your life is a poem, what do you want it to say? What would you rather leave out? What will the essence be?
Enjoy each moment as the perfect syllable, recognize the lyrical in the everyday, and sink your teeth softly into that cold delicious fruit.
—
This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
late in Life, Ghandi reflected:
ReplyDelete"I have admitted my mistake.
I thought our struggle was based on non-violence, whereas in reality it was no more than passive resistance, which is essentially a weapon of the weak."
MLK & the civil right movements should have taken note... too late for their collective Thinking mistake, but not too late for you to change your Thoughts: from brittle weakness in passivity to flexible strength in activity.