I do not know what to do with the brokenness or the beauty, but I do know what ‘not to do’. One should neither ignore them nor be oversensitive about them. One should neither take them to the heart nor be heartless about them. One should not be disturbed by them nor be casual or playful about them.
The beauty and brokenness both are abstracts, are mere observations and perceptions and depend on the state of heart and mind. While heart is fragile and easily breakable, the mind is fleeting and flirting with the thoughts. It is futile to cry over the events passed and the events beyond the control of heart and mind. Hearts break by misfortunes, mind is enlightened by sudden sparks of good fortune, but nothing remains forever. Hearts continue to beat; minds by and large retain their sanity.
What we can do is to let the storms pass, let the tides recede, and allow events to become things of the past, but only after the experiences are learnt; like the sugarcane pulp that is thrown away after the juice has been extracted. This is what we can do with our brokenness. We must believe that every heart has scars, that every mind had been traumatized some time or the other. The very fact that we are talking about these issues so openly confirms that we have done the right thing, by letting bygone be bygone.
Beauty is something else, it lies in the eyes of the beholder. We can seek and can find beauty in anything, broken or intact, natural, or created, possessed or discarded, appreciated, or rejected, appealing or abhorring.
Beauty is perceived through our five natural senses. Our minds have been tuned to a range of input frequencies which dictate either broken or mended, beautiful or ugly. The perceptions of beauty of nature for the blind or of ecstasy of music to the deaf would be totally different from what is normally understood since their senses are tuned to different frequencies. All we have to do is to retune our minds to hear the music in waves, winds, and thunder, to see beauty in unnatural or unusual, to see new life in decaying seeds, to see butterfly in moths, to see opportunities in failures. To appreciate what has been mended is also the evidence of creativity, what has been sustained is also the proof of resilience and perseverance.
Emotions are essential component of life, like the breath, the motion, and the will. They can also be conceived as good or bad depending on the state of heart and mind.
The art is to see positivity, even where none exists, or even in negativity. What is considered as broken or ugly is just a different state of perception, like ice and steam are different states of water. Every state is interchangeable and can be equally beautiful. State of brokenness is also natural part of life.
Mend what you can, accept what you cannot, and like whatever you have achieved. Accept others the way they are, not the way you want them to be. Mend what you can, accept what you cannot, and like whatever you have achieved. Accept others the way they are, not the way you want them to be. Their hearts too will have scars and their minds too may have disturbing experiences. Share with them. Shared joy is doubled, shared sorrow is halved. Once perceptions are changed, and acceptance and tolerance are practiced, everything will seem to be beautiful to the eyes of mind and soothing to the emotions of the heart.
I do not know what to do with the brokenness or the beauty, but I do know what ‘not to do’. One should neither ignore them nor be oversensitive about them. One should neither take them to the heart nor be heartless about them. One should not be disturbed by them nor be casual or playful about them.
The beauty and brokenness both are abstracts, are mere observations and perceptions and depend on the state of heart and mind. While heart is fragile and easily breakable, the mind is fleeting and flirting with the thoughts. It is futile to cry over the events passed and the events beyond the control of heart and mind. Hearts break by misfortunes, mind is enlightened by sudden sparks of good fortune, but nothing remains forever. Hearts continue to beat; minds by and large retain their sanity.
What we can do is to let the storms pass, let the tides recede, and allow events to become things of the past, but only after the experiences are learnt; like the sugarcane pulp that is thrown away after the juice has been extracted. This is what we can do with our brokenness. We must believe that every heart has scars, that every mind had been traumatized some time or the other. The very fact that we are talking about these issues so openly confirms that we have done the right thing, by letting bygone be bygone.
Beauty is something else, it lies in the eyes of the beholder. We can seek and can find beauty in anything, broken or intact, natural, or created, possessed or discarded, appreciated, or rejected, appealing or abhorring.
Beauty is perceived through our five natural senses. Our minds have been tuned to a range of input frequencies which dictate either broken or mended, beautiful or ugly. The perceptions of beauty of nature for the blind or of ecstasy of music to the deaf would be totally different from what is normally understood since their senses are tuned to different frequencies. All we have to do is to retune our minds to hear the music in waves, winds, and thunder, to see beauty in unnatural or unusual, to see new life in decaying seeds, to see butterfly in moths, to see opportunities in failures. To appreciate what has been mended is also the evidence of creativity, what has been sustained is also the proof of resilience and perseverance.
Emotions are essential component of life, like the breath, the motion, and the will. They can also be conceived as good or bad depending on the state of heart and mind.
The art is to see positivity, even where none exists, or even in negativity. What is considered as broken or ugly is just a different state of perception, like ice and steam are different states of water. Every state is interchangeable and can be equally beautiful. State of brokenness is also natural part of life.
Mend what you can, accept what you cannot, and like whatever you have achieved. Accept others the way they are, not the way you want them to be. Mend what you can, accept what you cannot, and like whatever you have achieved. Accept others the way they are, not the way you want them to be. Their hearts too will have scars and their minds too may have disturbing experiences. Share with them. Shared joy is doubled, shared sorrow is halved. Once perceptions are changed, and acceptance and tolerance are practiced, everything will seem to be beautiful to the eyes of mind and soothing to the emotions of the heart.
I do not know what to do with the brokenness or the beauty, but I do know what ‘not to do’. One should neither ignore them nor be oversensitive about them. One should neither take them to the heart nor be heartless about them. One should not be disturbed by them nor be casual or playful about them.
The beauty and brokenness both are abstracts, are mere observations and perceptions and depend on the state of heart and mind. While heart is fragile and easily breakable, the mind is fleeting and flirting with the thoughts. It is futile to cry over the events passed and the events beyond the control of heart and mind. Hearts break by misfortunes, mind is enlightened by sudden sparks of good fortune, but nothing remains forever. Hearts continue to beat; minds by and large retain their sanity.
What we can do is to let the storms pass, let the tides recede, and allow events to become things of the past, but only after the experiences are learnt; like the sugarcane pulp that is thrown away after the juice has been extracted. This is what we can do with our brokenness. We must believe that every heart has scars, that every mind had been traumatized some time or the other. The very fact that we are talking about these issues so openly confirms that we have done the right thing, by letting bygone be bygone.
Beauty is something else, it lies in the eyes of the beholder. We can seek and can find beauty in anything, broken or intact, natural, or created, possessed or discarded, appreciated, or rejected, appealing or abhorring.
Beauty is perceived through our five natural senses. Our minds have been tuned to a range of input frequencies which dictate either broken or mended, beautiful or ugly. The perceptions of beauty of nature for the blind or of ecstasy of music to the deaf would be totally different from what is normally understood since their senses are tuned to different frequencies. All we have to do is to retune our minds to hear the music in waves, winds, and thunder, to see beauty in unnatural or unusual, to see new life in decaying seeds, to see butterfly in moths, to see opportunities in failures. To appreciate what has been mended is also the evidence of creativity, what has been sustained is also the proof of resilience and perseverance.
Emotions are essential component of life, like the breath, the motion, and the will. They can also be conceived as good or bad depending on the state of heart and mind.
The art is to see positivity, even where none exists, or even in negativity. What is considered as broken or ugly is just a different state of perception, like ice and steam are different states of water. Every state is interchangeable and can be equally beautiful. State of brokenness is also natural part of life.
Mend what you can, accept what you cannot, and like whatever you have achieved. Accept others the way they are, not the way you want them to be. Mend what you can, accept what you cannot, and like whatever you have achieved. Accept others the way they are, not the way you want them to be. Their hearts too will have scars and their minds too may have disturbing experiences. Share with them. Shared joy is doubled, shared sorrow is halved. Once perceptions are changed, and acceptance and tolerance are practiced, everything will seem to be beautiful to the eyes of mind and soothing to the emotions of the heart.
I do not know what to do with the brokenness or the beauty, but I do know what ‘not to do’. One should neither ignore them nor be oversensitive about them. One should neither take them to the heart nor be heartless about them. One should not be disturbed by them nor be casual or playful about them.
The beauty and brokenness both are abstracts, are mere observations and perceptions and depend on the state of heart and mind. While heart is fragile and easily breakable, the mind is fleeting and flirting with the thoughts. It is futile to cry over the events passed and the events beyond the control of heart and mind. Hearts break by misfortunes, mind is enlightened by sudden sparks of good fortune, but nothing remains forever. Hearts continue to beat; minds by and large retain their sanity.
What we can do is to let the storms pass, let the tides recede, and allow events to become things of the past, but only after the experiences are learnt; like the sugarcane pulp that is thrown away after the juice has been extracted. This is what we can do with our brokenness. We must believe that every heart has scars, that every mind had been traumatized some time or the other. The very fact that we are talking about these issues so openly confirms that we have done the right thing, by letting bygone be bygone.
Beauty is something else, it lies in the eyes of the beholder. We can seek and can find beauty in anything, broken or intact, natural, or created, possessed or discarded, appreciated, or rejected, appealing or abhorring.
Beauty is perceived through our five natural senses. Our minds have been tuned to a range of input frequencies which dictate either broken or mended, beautiful or ugly. The perceptions of beauty of nature for the blind or of ecstasy of music to the deaf would be totally different from what is normally understood since their senses are tuned to different frequencies. All we have to do is to retune our minds to hear the music in waves, winds, and thunder, to see beauty in unnatural or unusual, to see new life in decaying seeds, to see butterfly in moths, to see opportunities in failures. To appreciate what has been mended is also the evidence of creativity, what has been sustained is also the proof of resilience and perseverance.
Emotions are essential component of life, like the breath, the motion, and the will. They can also be conceived as good or bad depending on the state of heart and mind.
The art is to see positivity, even where none exists, or even in negativity. What is considered as broken or ugly is just a different state of perception, like ice and steam are different states of water. Every state is interchangeable and can be equally beautiful. State of brokenness is also natural part of life.
Mend what you can, accept what you cannot, and like whatever you have achieved. Accept others the way they are, not the way you want them to be. Mend what you can, accept what you cannot, and like whatever you have achieved. Accept others the way they are, not the way you want them to be. Their hearts too will have scars and their minds too may have disturbing experiences. Share with them. Shared joy is doubled, shared sorrow is halved. Once perceptions are changed, and acceptance and tolerance are practiced, everything will seem to be beautiful to the eyes of mind and soothing to the emotions of the heart.