Katha Upanishad
I was wading through my daily dose of Philosophy and I stumbled across a very good quote from Katha Upanishad:
When he has been comphrehended by the thought “He is”
His real nature manifests itself.
When are liberated all
The desires that lodge in one’s heart,
Then a mortal becomes immortal!
It’s funny how passages can jump out at you and surprise you with the intensity of their meaning. I haven’t come across one authentically and thoroughly boring piece of literature in any of my classes.
The view from 5th floor Grace is spectacular. You can see the Minneapolis skyline and tonight there were fireworks (why?) in some suburb and you could see them illuminating a little space on the horizon. Of course the wind was ridiculous, it would just tear through the room and make the loudest racket imaginable. Up there on the top floor, it feels like you are on the top of a ship; you can see for miles, feel the warm wind, and let your mind wander past the confines of your immediate space.
I did laundry today. I feel so wonderful coming back to clean clothes, clean towels, and clean sheets. I’m going to shower, put on some clean evening clothing, and get into a nice clean bed. God bless washing machines!
Get this: my unlucky number is 784 [days]. Right, that’s 2.1479 years. Yes, that’s exactly 112 weeks (wow). Assuming i’ve been alive for 18+1/3 years, that comes out to (18+1/3)*365.25 = 6696.25 days I have been alive (roughly). Take 784/6696.25 and you get .11708. Why is this significant? Because 784 days out of my life is 11.7 percent of my time here on earth; over 10 percent of my life!
Time flies when you’re having fun.
I’ve concluded that, no matter how I hard I look, there is not a song out there expressing exactly how I feel. And I have listend to many songs so far. Therefore, I will set out to write my own. As we write the books of our lives, so may we write the songs that express ourselves.