Say Wow

Chelan Harkin is a mystic poet and his poem is posted in awakin.org. Here is my reflection to his poem:

Nature offers many wonderful gifts in our hands everyday and we say "Wow!" I get up early in the morning watching the sun rising and I say "Wow!" I hear the birds chirping and feeding their little babies and the words come out from my mouth, "Wow!" When I see the older brother taking care of the little younger brother my heart is filled with joy and I hear myself saying "Wow!"

There is an old saying in Sanskrit like" ksane kasne yaha upeti navatam tadeva rupam ramaniyayata." Beauty brings joy every moment. When I keep my mind and heart open to perceive and experience it fully each moment, my heart is filled with wonderment. I experience such Aha moments when I fully live in the present moment. When I was a child I had more "Wow!" moments. As I got older I became more thought minded and rational than heart minded and emotional which to some extent dried the flow of my heartfeltness. As I am growing older I have been able to create a dynamic balance between head and heart. This is one of the ways I have reconciled wonder with rationality.

​Namaste!