The whole creation is a hallucination.
You catch hold of one or anything,
think it is yours, but time comes
when it departs leaving you behind.
We are like children in a toy shop,
given liberty to do anything;
playing, rejoicing thinking ourselves
lords of everything.
But no material or merriment out of it
can be sustained forever.
We lose it one day and feel miserable.
Still many of us get glimpse of
something eternal in our lives
which cannot be denied.
Mostly we are not raised enough
to proceed further in our quest
to know the source of this light.
Everything is He, the supreme
showering bliss all the time on us.
We being naive cannot see it,
catch it, feel it though it is omnipresent.
In our ability whatever little we get
is a present of immortality.
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- Words Of Wisdom By Contemporary Spiritual Teachers : Jeannie Zandi by maa.
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Excellent!
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I don't know about immortality though it would be nice in a way. Do agree with what you said about the impermanence of everything. For me, this is especially true of people. You have a great time with them for a while and then, one way or another, they are gone.
Enjoyed your write.
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nice poem. very thoughtful and interesting. i think i spotted a small mistake where you wrote
We are like children is a toy shop,
did you mean, we are like children IN a toy shop?
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Nicely done. Shows insight.
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Yes, I agree with you in this, except maybe creation...I think its real.
I loved your thoughts on our human nature, basically, we are a selfish, childish lot, ain't we??
Thanks for entering.
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This a very interesting piece that definitely makes you think, which is a good thing. It deals with the thoughts about our own mortality.
Just one bit if constructive criticism. In the fourth line, I think it would sound better as "when it departs leaving you behind" it makes a little more sense and might make it flow better.
Great write, thanks for entering!
~Memoirs
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Great write, loved this very much. Good luck in my contest.
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hmm... interesting, thanks for the write
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This is pretty good. It is true how sometimes we get caught up in the things of this world like a child would in a toy store. We need to remember that anything we have here isn't really that important and can be taken away just as easily as it was given to us. Good job and thanks for entering my contest!
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Very easy to digest for such a realistic take on a harsh subject.
I like the change of tone with the inclusion of a supreme being and immortality.
Cool work and good luck in contest!
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your words of wisdom are such precious pearls offered to us ... and invite us to reflect upon the deeper meaning of them through introspection ... I wonder if it is education that helps us create the necessary conditions in order to attract grace into our lives, as I have understood from your words ... my own experience of a total absence of religion and spirituality transmitted by my relatives, seemed to have created the necessary "absence of sense", the necessary suffering, the necessary "nightmare" from which I wished to wake up ... but before I was drawn into the mud of despair even more deeply ... until finally, I called to my "real" father, my "real" mother, to get me out of it ... offering my very own life in return ...
I must say I have made the right choice, if we can speak of choice ... peace, joy and abundance have filled my cup above expectation and still do so ... divine grace - certainly not deserved through merits - but so generously bestowed by the divine ... a constant song of gratitude towards god has replaced outcries of desperation ...
thank you so much for your inspiring contribution in this contest ...
maa
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thumbs up
'lords of everything.
But no material or merriment out of it'
says iy all my friend
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