Who is looking?

How shall I know the way of all things?

By what is inside me.

~Lao Tzu

For Him

Time present and time past

Are both perhaps present in time future

And time future contained in time past

If all time is eternally present

All time is unredeemable.

What might have been is an abstraction

Remaining a perpetual possibility

Only in a world of speculation.

What might have been and what has been

Point to one end, which is always present.

Footfalls echo in the memory

Down the passage which we did not take

Towards the door we never opened

Into the rose-garden.

My words echo

Thus, in your mind.

But to what purpose

Disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves

I do not know.

...

~ TS Eliot

Pain/Pleasure

Sometimes the pain is so deep

that the only pleasure out of existence

is to indulge in thinking of ways

to end it all.