They flash upon the inward eye,which is the bliss of solitude...

Today I want to say so much but there is so little time.I was working and as I get paid mostly for getting bored,was reading blogs.I came upon a few really beautiful lines,that made me remember some of the best I have ever come across yet.Here are all of those that I could recall........

"Beware,you are heading where you are going to"-Chinese proverb
I had this pinned over my table in Topaz.It is the most subtle proverb I have ever read.It seems so trivial but when I first heard it I was bowled over by the sheer beauty of its phraseology.There is so much depth behind the simple words.Invariably everybody who ever came to my room would ask what it meant.

"A stick cut in half everyday, and so till eternity"-Chinese adage
I found this on the cover of a book by Tai Ran Hsu,on MEMS(Micro Electro Mechanical Systems).This is most mundane I know, but brilliantly contextual.It is the basic principle of working in the microdomain,to reduce all dimensions.It was my elective and though I recall nothing else this is etched in memory.

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour"
I fell in love with these lines when they appeared as a footnote in the Pragyan souvenir and have never stopped thinking about them since.They are from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence.I have read the poem and its sheer musicality is mind blowing, and though I have never figured out what these lines mean,it has only deeepned the mystery around them.

"What though this radiance which was once so bright,
Be now forever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour,
Of splendour in the grass,of glory in the flower
We shall grieve not,rather find
Strength in what remains behind"
From Wordsworths Intimations of Immortality.I will never for get this,for I wrote it in the card we gave for our seniors farewell.Perhaps neither will they.More interesting is its context ,that Kabir Bedi quoted this when talking about his four wives:)

"If you can meet with truimph and disaster,and treat these impostors just the same,
If you can risk all your winnings on one turn of pitch and toss,
lose and start again at your beginnings and not breathe a word of your loss
If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty second worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything thats in it, and whats more
You will be a man my son!!"
My favourite lines from Kipling's If.I think of it as my guide in life and it adorned the walls of my room in Topaz just like one more of my favourites,Lincolns letter to his son's teacher.

"The man who knows not,knows not that he knows not, is a fool-shun him.
The man who knows,knows that he knows not,is a simpleton-teach him
The man who knows not,knows not that he knows,is sleeping-awaken him"
-Arabian proverb
This was stuck on the door of my room,taken from The Hindu pages.It lasted till the ward boy thought better of it and tore it off one day while cleaning my room.

"This too shall pass"
The thing which cheers me up when I am down and sobers me down when I am too happy.

"The race is not to the swift,nor battle to the strong,but its to those who want it the most"
You cant put it any better.I know it now.

"mere man ye bata de tu,kis aur chala hai tu,
kya paya nahin tune,kise dhood raha hai tu
jo hai ankahee,jo hai ansuni,ek baat kya hai bata..."
The latest tune to capture my heart,and also the eternal question that I often think about.Though I have a pathological hate for Karan Johar,SRK,Aishwarya Rai and anything to do with their movies,atleast Johar has the good sense to choose good singers!:)

That will be all now.I shall put up more as and when I remember.I hope to discover and come across more like these in future.