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Monday, January 23, 2012
A new heart is coming into existence....
It's all different now.The sorrow is different and the joy is different.I do not know anything, of course!I do not understand what it is I live by and I can't express my feelings in words!said mother.
This is the way it ought to be !Because, mark you,mother dear,,a new heart is growing up in life.All hearts are smitten in the conflict of interests,all are consumed with a blind greed,eaten up with envy,stricken,wounded and dripping with filth,falsehood and cowardice.All people are sick;they are afraid to live;they wander about as in a mist.Everyone feels only his own toothache.But lo,and behold! Here is a man coming and illuminating life with the light of reason and he shouts:Oh,ho!you straying roaches!It's time,high time,for you to understand that all your interests are one,that everyone has the need to live,everyone has desire to grow!The Man who shouts this is alone and therefore he cries aloud;he needs comrades,he feels dreary in his loneliness,dreary and cold.And at his call the staunch hearts unite into one great,strong heart,deep and sensitive as a silver bell not yet cast.And hark!this bell rings forth the message...'Men of all countries,unite into one family!Love is the mother of life not hate!'My brothers!I hear this message sounding through the world!
When I lie in bed at night or am out walking alone-everywhere I hear this sound and my heart rejoices.And the earth too-i know it- weary of injustice and sorrow,rings out like a bell,responding to a call and throbs benignly,greeting the new Sun arising in the breast of Man.
Do you know/There is still much suffering in store for the people, much of their blood will yet flow,squeezed out by the hands of greed;but all that-all my suffering ,all my blood is small price for that which is already stirring in my breast,in my mind,in the marrow of my bones!I am already rich,as a star is rich in golden rays.And I will bear all,I will suffer all because there is within me a joy which no one,which nothing can ever stifle!In this joy there is a world of strength!
This is the way it ought to be !Because, mark you,mother dear,,a new heart is growing up in life.All hearts are smitten in the conflict of interests,all are consumed with a blind greed,eaten up with envy,stricken,wounded and dripping with filth,falsehood and cowardice.All people are sick;they are afraid to live;they wander about as in a mist.Everyone feels only his own toothache.But lo,and behold! Here is a man coming and illuminating life with the light of reason and he shouts:Oh,ho!you straying roaches!It's time,high time,for you to understand that all your interests are one,that everyone has the need to live,everyone has desire to grow!The Man who shouts this is alone and therefore he cries aloud;he needs comrades,he feels dreary in his loneliness,dreary and cold.And at his call the staunch hearts unite into one great,strong heart,deep and sensitive as a silver bell not yet cast.And hark!this bell rings forth the message...'Men of all countries,unite into one family!Love is the mother of life not hate!'My brothers!I hear this message sounding through the world!
When I lie in bed at night or am out walking alone-everywhere I hear this sound and my heart rejoices.And the earth too-i know it- weary of injustice and sorrow,rings out like a bell,responding to a call and throbs benignly,greeting the new Sun arising in the breast of Man.
Do you know/There is still much suffering in store for the people, much of their blood will yet flow,squeezed out by the hands of greed;but all that-all my suffering ,all my blood is small price for that which is already stirring in my breast,in my mind,in the marrow of my bones!I am already rich,as a star is rich in golden rays.And I will bear all,I will suffer all because there is within me a joy which no one,which nothing can ever stifle!In this joy there is a world of strength!
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Mother - Maxim Gorky
You know,sometimes you have a wonderful feeling living in your heart.It seems to you that wherever you go,all men are comrades;all burn with one and the same fire;all are merry;all are good.Without words they all understand one another;and no on wants to hinder or insult the other.No one feels the need of it.All live in unison but each heart sings its own song.And the songs flow like brooks into one stream,swelling into a huge river of bright joys,rolling free and wide down its course.And when you think that this will be-that it cannot help being if we so wish it-then the wonder-struck heart melts with joy.You feel like weeping-you feel so happy.
And when you wake up and look around,you see it's all filthy and cold.All are tired and angry,human life is all churned up like mud on a busy highway and trodden under foot.
Yes,it hurts,but you must-you must distrust man;you must fear him and even hate him!Man is divided,he is cut in two by life.You'd like only to love him;but how is it possible?How can you forgive a man if he goes against you like a wild beast,does not recognize that there is a living soul in you ,and kicks your face- a human face!You must not forgive.It's not for yourself that you mustn't.I'd stand all the insults as far as I myself am concerned but I don't want to show indulgence for insults.I don't want to let them learn on my back how to beat others.
I must not forgive anything that is evil,even though it does not hurt!I'm not alone in the world.If I allow myself to be insulted today-may be I can afford to laugh at the insult,maybe it doesn't sting me at all but having tested his strength on me,the offender will proceed to flay someone else the next day!That's why one is compelled to discriminate between people,to keep a firm grip on one's heart and to classify mankind-these belong to me,those are strangers.
It's so plainly evident that it's downright ridiculous-simply because men don't stand on an equal footing.Then let's equalize them,put them all in one row!Let's divide equally all that's produced by the brain and all that's made by the hands.Let's not keep one another in the slavery of fear and envy,in the thralldom of greed and stupidity!
And when you wake up and look around,you see it's all filthy and cold.All are tired and angry,human life is all churned up like mud on a busy highway and trodden under foot.
Yes,it hurts,but you must-you must distrust man;you must fear him and even hate him!Man is divided,he is cut in two by life.You'd like only to love him;but how is it possible?How can you forgive a man if he goes against you like a wild beast,does not recognize that there is a living soul in you ,and kicks your face- a human face!You must not forgive.It's not for yourself that you mustn't.I'd stand all the insults as far as I myself am concerned but I don't want to show indulgence for insults.I don't want to let them learn on my back how to beat others.
I must not forgive anything that is evil,even though it does not hurt!I'm not alone in the world.If I allow myself to be insulted today-may be I can afford to laugh at the insult,maybe it doesn't sting me at all but having tested his strength on me,the offender will proceed to flay someone else the next day!That's why one is compelled to discriminate between people,to keep a firm grip on one's heart and to classify mankind-these belong to me,those are strangers.
It's so plainly evident that it's downright ridiculous-simply because men don't stand on an equal footing.Then let's equalize them,put them all in one row!Let's divide equally all that's produced by the brain and all that's made by the hands.Let's not keep one another in the slavery of fear and envy,in the thralldom of greed and stupidity!
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