Monday, May 23, 2005

Joy and Sorrow

The one that can feel utmost pain can experience utmost joy.
Intensity of an emotion depends on a persons capacity to let himself feel and experience the emotion, the larger the capacity -the more the intensity. Imagine the heart to be a bowl...the larger the bowl the more joy and sorrow can be filled into it.

Happiness and sorrow are but relative concepts; would we bless the wind if the sun didnot scorch? would we value laughter if we but perpetually smiled? would take care of our body if we were always fit? would we listen to our soul if it didnot cry out through an aching heart?

As Khalil Gibran quotes in his book The Prophet
"your joy is your sorrow unmasked.And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.Joy and Sorrow are inseperable-when one sits with you at your board,remember the other is asleep upon your bed.The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you will contain."

5 comments:

crusading against myself~! said...

hello P... i really liked this post..

also .. i figd.. i shld ask...

u likd the colors i chose 4 u???

wht goes arnd comes arnd.. rem ;)

Fanaah said...

yes, i like the image.
what goes arnd comes arnd even harder--is hardly someting life allows to me forget.n u are ultimate proof of it.

Venkatesh Sridhar said...

hmmm joy is ur sorrow unmasked.... but my question is why cant we tune our mind to be in a state of joy...

Mind control .. the key to happiness.... Mind control seekho seekho

Fanaah said...

mind control is my ultimate desire n yet it seems so impossible. n it feels so shit tht the one thing tht can make me the most powerful ever i dont have
but...atleast weve started yoga-one step towards it naa?

Kamlesh Acharya said...

Pretty good ... and thought provoking... I liked it... "Joy and Sorrow" that is.... (I know that the mail that reaches you won't show the article name for which I'm commenting..)

Well, I reached your blog through n number of other blogs and was stuck on it.. Keep it up...

btw, This is Kamlesh Acharya. Recently I got a call from SP Jain Dubai.. Good to know that you've a senior who is also a blogger... ;-)