Afloat!

Julius Caesar Act 4, scene 3, 218–224

Brutus:

“We at the height are ready to decline.

There is a tide in the affairs of men.

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat,

And we must take the current when it serves,

Or lose our ventures.”

This philosophy seems wise; it contains a certain beauty as well, suggesting that while we do not have total control over our lives, we do have a responsibility to take what few measures we can to live nobly and honorably.

Sometimes if one misses this chance, the “voyage” that one’s life comprises will remain forever confined to the shallows, and one will never experience anything more glorious than the mundane events in this narrow little bay.

And sometimes if we do not “take the current” now, when the time is right, we will lose our “ventures,” or opportunities.

Human beings must be shrewd enough to recognize when fate offers them an opportunity and bold enough to take advantage of it.

The passage elegantly formulates a complex conception of the interplay between fate and free will in human life. Throughout the play, the reader must frequently contemplate the forces of fate versus free will and ponder whether characters might be able to prevent tragedy if they could only understand and heed the many omens that they encounter. This musing brings up further questions, such as whether one can achieve success through virtue, ambition, courage, and commitment or whether one is simply fated to succeed or fail, with no ability to affect this destiny.

Father - عقابى در آسمان

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give to his child,

he believed in me and taught me it’s easy to be human but it is hard to remember your humanity!

پدرم بزرگترين هديه اى را كه يك پدر مى تواند به فرزندش بدهد را به من داد، او مرا باور داشت و به من آموخت كه انسان بودن آسان است اما انسانيت را فراموش نكردن دشوار

Heart

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human! Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Albert Einstein once said: “Remember your humanity and forget the rest!”

House Of Mercy

From the beginning of my life

I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen the charm,
the beauty
the unfathomable grace of the face
that I was looking for

Today I have found you
and those who laughed and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking as I did

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty
and wish to see you with a hundred eyes

My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever f
or this wondrous beauty that I now behold

I am ashamed to call this love human
and afraid of God to call it divine
Your fragrant breath like the
morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden

You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine and also your shadow

My soul is screaming in ecstacy
Every fiber of my being is in love with you
Your efflugence has lit a
fire
in my heart for me the earth and sky

My arrow of love has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart is a place of prayer

Rumi

Selfishness

The human being who lives only for himself/herself

Finally reaps nothing but unhappiness.

Selfishness corrodes.

Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful,

Kindly things for others.

Silence

People who do not understand our silence

will probably not understand our words.

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

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L’Infinito - Infinity

Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle,
E questa siepe, che da tanta parte
Dell’ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.
Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati
Spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani
Silenzi, e profondissima quiete
Io nel pensier mi fingo; ove per poco
Il cor non si spaura. E come il vento
Odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
Infinito silenzio a questa voce
Vo comparando: e mi sovvien l’eterno,
E le morte stagioni, e la presente
E viva, e il suon di lei. Cosi tra questa
Immensita s’annega il pensier mio:
E il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare.

Giacomo Leopardi



Always dear to me was this lonely hill,
And this hedge, which from me so great a part
Of the farthest horizon excludes the gaze.
But as I sit and watch, I invent in my mind
endless spaces beyond, and superhuman
silences, and profoundest quiet;
wherefore my heart
almost loses itself in fear. And as I hear the wind
rustle through these plants, I compare
that infinite silence to this voice:
and I recall to mind eternity,
And the dead seasons, and the one present
And alive, and the sound of it. So in this
Immensity my thinking drowns:
And to shipwreck is sweet for me in this sea.