Poetry: A thought for today
By emptychair
@innertalks (23734)
Australia
August 16, 2020 3:33am CST
The greatest thought is the thought not thought.
The smallest love is the love not given.
The biggest smile is the smile just smiled.
The minutest life is the biggest life if it's yours.
The emptiest emptiness is the unfilled self unfulfilled.
The greatest fullness is not fullness, but emptiness filled with itself.
A thought is not a thought until it is thought with thought.
The greatest thought is never thought because it is thought by God.
"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
William Shakespeare, English playwright, (1564 to 1616).
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Do you let sandy thoughts fill your bucket with only sand?
Does sanding off your thoughts sometimes, only produce more sand?
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6 responses
@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
16 Aug 20
I always love each and every line you quote.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
16 Aug 20
Ha,ha. It maybe reminded you of some other poem.
You couldn't have seen this before, l only just wrote it today.
@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
17 Aug 20
@kanuck1 Yes, even a toadstool would not fit into a mushroom...lol...
@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
16 Aug 20
Yes, thanks, Ken.
What would the smallest room be then?
Maybe, a swelled head, with no room left in it at all...lol...
@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
16 Aug 20
Your poem is full of philosophies of life.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
17 Aug 20
@innertalks Ah,you know very well about Tao Te Ching,which teaches people how to look at things dialectically.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
16 Aug 20
Yes. I like to write like this.
It's a bit like how the Tao Te Ching is written, playing opposite ideas against each other.
@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
17 Aug 20
@innertalks Ah,you know very well about Tao Te Ching,which teaches people how to look at things dialectically.
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
16 Aug 20
Thought provoking, that is a well considered thought from me, Steve!
Good words and actions ensue good good thoughts.
We need to pause and ponder often and not rush into action without considered thoughts.
I think over whether my actions from thoughts bring about good or bad to society at large.
Yes, we should have original thoughts from deep contemplation to value add and to lend variety to the creative process. It is no wonder some are remembered even after thousands of years for their thoughts - siva
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
16 Aug 20
Yes, thanks, siva.
Rushing around, turns us around and around, without our really leaving the one turn point.
We just bore a big hole into the ground, and bury ourselves in it, so we cannot then see what is really around us, or going around, around us, anymore.
We need to sit peacefully, or pause and ponder, as you said, to take in more of what is really around us, and in us too, before we make that considered response to life, and to ourselves from truth, rather than from hearsay.
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@innertalks (23734)
• Australia
17 Aug 20
@Shiva49 On the other hand, useless contemplation of our navel, or the point of our nose, to try to connect the two together, wastes a lot of time too.
Any methods used must be tried and tested, as otherwise, we are just spinning a top on a floor, hoping for it to stop spinning, pointing us in the right direction.
God does not play spin the bottle with our lives.
We need to connect to truth, rather than to any magic tricks.
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@Shiva49 (28366)
• Singapore
17 Aug 20
@innertalks I think we can learn what life is about only through deep contemplation from our experiences and also from the considered view of past masters who have had the luxury of more time in their hands to reflect on what life is about.
Social media has its limits and "silence is golden". Rushing around pointlessly gives us a fleeting sense of accomplishment and importance but at the end of the day they prove empty in terms of the richness and variety of experiences - siva
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