These words above are deeply interlinked in the flow of thoughts that arose after I read a translation by my mother from a Tamil quote forwarded on Social media.
Interesting to note it is from a divorced husband after 10 years of realization.
‘Don’t show your pride before your wife. She came to you just believing in you Not your relatives.
My property My earnings My will Then who is she? What is the meaning of her life with you?
Can’t she have her dreams, her desires, to be fulfilled with you?
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The strength of the soul Is in allowing the fluidity of the flow Of acceptance of possibilities. In the flexibility of feelings To adapt to the changes. In foregoing retribution And forgiving the past. Evolving in the flow.
When I was doing my B. E. there was aProfessor who used to teach us ‘Mechanics’.
His lectures used to be very interesting since he had an interesting way to teach and explain the concepts.
One day, in the class, he asked the following questions:
1. What is ZERO? 2. What is INFINITY? 3. Can ZERO andINFINITY be same?
We all thought that we knew the answers and we replied as following:
ZERO means nothing. INFINITY means a number greater than any countable number.
ZERO and INFINITY are opposite and they can never be same.
He countered us by first talking about infinity and asked, How can there be any number which is greater than any countable number?
We had no answers.
He then explained the concept of infinity in a very interesting way, which I remember even after more than 50 years.
He said that imagine that there is anilliterate shepherdwho can count only upto 20.
Now, if the number of sheep he has less than 20 and you ask him how many sheep he has, he can tell you the precise number (like 3, 5 14 etc.).
However, if the number is more than 20, he is likely to say “TOO MANY”.
He then explained that in science infinity means ‘too many’ (and not uncountable) and in the same way zero means ‘too few’ (and not nothing).
As an example, he said that if we take the diameter of the Earth as compared to distance between Earth and Sun, the diameter of earth can be said to be zero since it is too small.
However, when we compare the same diameter of earth with the size of a grain, diameter of earth can be said to be infinite.
Hence, he concluded that the same thing can be ZERO and INFINITE at the same time, depending on the context, or your matrix of comparison.
The relationship between richness and poverty is similar to the relationshipbetween infinity and zero
It all depends on the scale of comparison with your wants.
If your income ismore than your wants, you are rich. If your wants are more than your income, you are poor.
I consider myself rich because my wants are far less than my income.
I have become rich not so much by acquiring lots of money, but BY PROGRESSIVELY REDUCING MY WANTS.
If you can reduce your wants, you too can BECOME RICH at this very moment.
This interesting forward came my way today and I wanted to share this with a few musings on the same lines…
Being rich is living life exploring and discovering all your possibilities of your potential
Being rich is being able to realize the potential of you.
Being rich is being ready to sense the abundance that is.
Money is not necessarily the only factor for your worth.
You are rich in knowing your worth.
Be enriched in health wealth & prosperity but most of all be rich in the heart and mind.
In realization of the contentment of what you have, you are truly rich!
How intriguing are the intersections in interconnects…
In synergy of the energy Of the harmony in the synchrony Of life and the living Of spaces between the steps The spectre of the spheres The realms of the cosmos From one to another dimensions And what is beyond the known The illusions in the making.
Yet to understand more Is to acknowledge the dance Of patterns of possibilities Shape shifting formations Arranging and rearranging In the infinite potential.
Watch this spectre of the spheres, the dance of the planets Jupiter and Mars around the sun…
The human heart is continually operating as a muscular pump, contracting on average 80 times per minute to propel 9 tons of blood through body tissues each day.
Silence is the language of the mind in introspection. It is the language of self analyzation . It gives one time for self improvement. The pauses in between can change the course of the situation. It has many meanings. Silence is so powerful
When the mind becomes still Learning to silence even this silent language Then it fills the soul With bliss n harmony. It becomes A celebration of Silence.
The journey of imagination Takes me into the beyond From nothing to something From something to everything And in this travel is limitlessness In the abundance of possibilities The unreachables & unattainables Becoming sublime along the way Traveling on, with the inate potential Of infinite beginnings of imagination.
Savvy Raj 
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