Beyond Reason..

"In a life lived long enough, there are strange symmetries that we recognize only later, if we recognize them at all- moments when an experience or a perception has a parallel moment in another time, a balancing echo, years in the future, or perhaps years in the past, a moment when it feels as if a circle is closing, encompassing and completing something infinitely precious.

Often this circle begins or ends, or sometimes begins anew with a slight disturbance in the world of the senses- a sound, a smell, a glimpse of something, an inkling vibrating just below the level of our conscious thought. This is a world we civilized people have been taught to dismiss. When the French philosopher Rene Descartes wrote "Cogito ergo sum" in 1637, those three words in Latin- 'I think, therefore I am' ushered in an era historians call the Enlightenment. In a sense, we still live in it today; it is a world in which the mind is elevated above the senses, where rational thought is judged superior to feelings. And yet, and yet.. things happen in our lives that challenge this conceit: slight shifts occur in the firmament of everyday existence, the turning world hesitates imperceptibly, the known constellations of experience inexplicably blink-- and everything is changed.

These are the moments that do not lend themselves to rational thought; they are entirely unusual.."

This is again a piece that stayed with me from some Sunday news paper reading in Kolkata. It stayed with me because I believe in it and I am a hoarder, everything that resonates with me goes into my collection.

But honestly some days are just too queer to explain. You cannot explain how certain things play out in a certain way. 

Then when you close your eyes at the end of the day, the fading ripples of the day slowly conjure some familiar patterns, and you can sense a certain clarity below the surface, as if 'a circle is finally closing' in front of your tired eyes..

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