Wisdom of the Old

The great wheel of Karma slowly but nonetheless surely turns...and if you learn to listen a little carefully, you can hear the creaking of its nuts and bolts as it turns and prepare for the change... but it often takes years of patient waiting and constant anticipation before it actually happens, and even then the swiftness of it can take you completely by surprise.. probably because you start thinking that the status quo will remain forever, simply because it has remained like that for as long as you can remember- a kind of numb complaescency sets in even without you realising it..

Then there are those who are so hell bent on moving the wheel themselves, they push and pull and heave ho and puff and get all flustered and red in the face when it doesnt budge an inch even with their greatest effort. They become glum and frustrated and assume things wont come to pass ever- bred as they are on an infrastructure focussed on instant gratification- instant food, instant messenger, instant riches and even instant spirituality. Patience is an increasingy unnecessary virtue in the world of today and can be supposedly done away with.

I suppose that is what is called wisdom of the old... to know when to wait... and know when to no more..

When the time is ripe
The clouds shall burst forth
And brown will give way to green and pink and gold....

Water Dreams

To wear a water necklace
To wear a liquid dress
To flow unrestricted
To really touch

To be life’s essence
For life to be me
To be restless
To be calm
To be gentle yet tough

To be the silence of depth and depth of silence…

Cogito, ergo sum

A friend of mine recently complained that language is so crucial a crutch for him that he cant think without words. Made me start thinking if any of us can?

Are we limited in our thinking because of language? Is articulation an end result of thinking or we can only think what we can articulate? I think it is the classic chicken and egg question- what came first?

How did the early man think before the invention of language? Did he grow more sophisticated in his thinking with access to ever expanding vocabulary in language?