Detachment

“The enlightened know that to make the world a painless place, you must change your heart, not the world.

That is the state of one who has reached perfection. He has conquered his mind and leads an equipoised existence. He knows himself to be infinite bliss and is unaffected by the pleasures or pains of empirical life. His apparent joys and sorrows are only superficial waves passing over the eternal calm of his real self. He had used every circumstance to make himself firmer and firmer in that unshakable state.”

On a day when I was feeling emotional and affected, these words came to me.

Everything does happen for a reason.

Let Go

If we know that a day ends

Only so that the next can begin

Why do we mourn what we lose in life?

As far as the sky stretches above us

We have never had anything to begin with.

Keep Watch

Keep watch over your soul –

For even as you are immersed in this world,

And partake in it,

You should not be tainted by it,

And be all too aware, that it too shall pass.

 

Reminder to self.

Detachment

Was warned by the brother that this would be a depressing film. But because one of the central themes was about education, I decided to give it a go anyway.

A touching and sensitive portrayal of the American society and education system by Adrien Brody. If you’re an educator, you’d probably be able to identify well.

“And never have I felt so deeply at one
and the same time so detached from myself
and so present in the world.”
– Albert Camus

Can’t help but wonder where are we heading.