The Eagle !
Love is not which alters when it alteration finds.
A blind Milton wrote these lines many decades ago but my young mind could never forget these lines from the day I first read it as part of my English syllabus in one of the English classes.
In the last few days I feel I have gone through the entire gamut of emotions that a human can possibly go through and I am richer for the experience. It has also given me clarity on what I want from my life.
Essentially it has reiterated my belief that the essence is in the being and the knowing and not in the form that it takes. Form is decided by life at a particular point in time and stems from a collective or individualistic expectation but the being is timeless. If love is in the knowing it is also in the nurturing of it irrespective of the form it takes. It has to remain alive in spirit. It cannot thrive in the desertion of it in the face of adversity and that is its biggest test.
P .S – The eagle is said to never have to face a storm because it charts its own route by flying above the storm.
A blind Milton wrote these lines many decades ago but my young mind could never forget these lines from the day I first read it as part of my English syllabus in one of the English classes.
In the last few days I feel I have gone through the entire gamut of emotions that a human can possibly go through and I am richer for the experience. It has also given me clarity on what I want from my life.
Essentially it has reiterated my belief that the essence is in the being and the knowing and not in the form that it takes. Form is decided by life at a particular point in time and stems from a collective or individualistic expectation but the being is timeless. If love is in the knowing it is also in the nurturing of it irrespective of the form it takes. It has to remain alive in spirit. It cannot thrive in the desertion of it in the face of adversity and that is its biggest test.
P .S – The eagle is said to never have to face a storm because it charts its own route by flying above the storm.
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posted by shruti @ 11:58 PM
9 Comments:
At Friday, 28 September, 2007,
Suchintya said…
If I may be bold as to add to that - form is something that the other being tries to construct to map the being into its own reality. Love is when this effort is realized to be useless.
Lady, you should study philosophy... :) The profound implications of all your posts leave me dumb.
At Friday, 28 September, 2007,
shruti said…
@suchintya - I am amazed that you seem to understand the deeper meanings and I am gratified for the compliments bestowed .
Love is when this effort is realized to be useless
truely beautiful ..is that your own quote ?
At Sunday, 30 September, 2007,
Sathish said…
mmmmhhhmmm...
At Monday, 01 October, 2007,
Born Too Soon said…
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
:(
At Monday, 01 October, 2007,
shruti said…
@sathish - ???
@Sushanth - Yes true but few understand the blessings of love or have the courage to bear it out to the edge of doom .
At Monday, 01 October, 2007,
Born Too Soon said…
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”--Helen Keller
So...true.... :(
At Wednesday, 03 October, 2007,
Arun said…
Umm.. form dissolves when you are IN love.
The pinnacle of love is when you see everything as one, and there is no form.
That is(at least as they say) the view of an elevated being. But until someone reaches there, we are just normal human beings. The idea of living is to strive to get to that state.
At Wednesday, 03 October, 2007,
Arun said…
The comparison of eagle is beautiful :)
At Saturday, 06 October, 2007,
shruti said…
@sushanth - yes we are our own doom ..a personification of the eternal consciousness..we hold our fate in our hands ,,lovely lines and thts the beauty of life ..the process has to be enjoyed always .
@arun - yes the eagle has a strange magnificience that draws one to challenge and to achieve . yes and the journey can be made oh so beautiful and all encompassing if we were to just enjoy whatever that came our way .
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