Particles of Dust:Poetry
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With the swing of the pendulum and the ticking of clocks, Which regulates our movements, while we try to beat the clock! But the ancient theologians and philosophers of India and Greece, Who were among the first to ponder about the true nature of all things, Had wondered about the subjective nature of time; Was time linear or cyclic, was time endless or finite?
He claimed that everything around us, is in a constant state of change and flux. You cannot step into the same river twice Heraclitus had claimed, Since water keeps flowing down the river all the while and never remains the same. This flow and change in Nature is a process which is ceaseless.
The only thing which remains permanent is impermanence! Here is a quote from poet Shelley reflecting the same idea: Parmenides said that our senses deceive us, since all changes are mere illusory! Now the Greeks were never comfortable with the Concept of Infinity.
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Time has been viewed as a forward moving changing entity; And also as an illusory, continuous and indivisible Being! For Plato, time was created by the Creator at the same instance when he had fashioned the heavens. Therefore, time here becomes the change which we see and experience. Time takes on a linear motion moving from the past to the present; And to the unknown future like a moving arrow travelling straight.
Aristotle had developed a four step process to understand everything inside of Time and within human experience: Mass-less photons can travel at the speed of light with a mind boggling , miles per second! No reward is offered, for they are gone forever!
Now this lead St. Augustine, to formulate a very admirable relativistic theory of Time! Time can only be measured while it is passing, yet there is time past, and time future in reality. To avoid these contradictions he says that past and future can only be thought of as present: Since memory and expectation being both present facts, there is no contradiction. This subjective notion of time led St. Now the German philosopher Leibniz during 17th century, had challenged Newton with his anti-realist theory of time. Leibniz claimed that time was only a convenient intellectual concept, that enables to sequence and compare happening of events.
For Bergson, time is as fundamental as space; and it is time that holds the essence of life, and perhaps of all reality.
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The past in its entirety is prolonged into the present and abides there actual and acting. Duration means that the past endures, that nothing is lost. Though we think with only a small part of our past; but it is with our entire past that we desire, will, and act.
Perhaps all reality is time and duration, becoming and change. Therefore we are not stuck in simple sequential or linear time, but can step out of it almost at will! James Fields rated it it was amazing Aug 13, Adi rated it it was amazing Aug 06, Ashraf Maklad marked it as to-read Nov 22, Sunshine marked it as to-read Mar 24, Ladonna marked it as to-read Apr 21, Md Arif Ali marked it as to-read Jun 25, Gwen marked it as to-read Aug 17, Mursal Ramiz marked it as to-read Jun 21, Raima Hossain marked it as to-read Jun 24, Sarah Shahin marked it as to-read Jun 27, Cecilia Lauenstein marked it as to-read Apr 07, Gaurav marked it as to-read May 24, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages, and he has been described as the most popular poet and the best-selling poet in the United States. When his father died, Rumi, aged 25, inherited his position as the head of an Islamic school. For nine years, Rumi practised Sufism as a disciple of Burhan ud-Din until the latter died in or Rumi's public life then began: He also served as a Molvi Islamic teacher and taught his adherents in the madrassa.
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During this period, Rumi also travelled to Damascus and is said to have spent four years there. It was his meeting with the dervish Shams-e Tabrizi on 15 November that completely changed his life. From an accomplished teacher and jurist, Rumi was transformed into an ascetic. On the night of 5 December , as Rumi and Shams were talking, Shams was called to the back door.
He went out, never to be seen again. Rumi's love for, and his bereavement at the death of, Shams found their expression in an outpouring of lyric poems, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi.