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 INSIGHTS

  Dear readers

  I have written this book of poetry to share some insights in the hope they can benefit everyone. I hope you find the poetry enjoyable, interesting, even inspiring, and ultimately useful. I believe everything we have is given and we shouldn’t be stingy in sharing it so I have not held back in sharing some of my deepest insights and wish this to be read by everyone regardless of race, religion, gender etc.

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  With love and sincerest best wishes

  Saqib Hussain04.12.2016

  Copyright © Saqib Hussain

  Poetry:

  Articles:

  Contents

  INSIGHTS

  All is empty without love

  Attention = Growth

  Curiosity runs forward

  Dendrites

  Handshake

  Limited view

  Opportunity

  Rushing is roughness

  Spinning the wheel

  Striving

  Struggle is needed

  There is a truth

  When death comes to you

  When the soul looks through the eyes

  MODERN LIFE

  Awkward

  Cats

  Dark grey

  Dressing shells

  Early to rise

  Leaves fall all around us

  Peace knocks on our door

  Procastin…

  Sins

  Stay on the right, son

  Technology

  The world is like a jigsaw

  TV

  Two ducks

  Which programme do you want with that?

  Which sauce?

  OTHER

  All aboard!

  Old friends

  Orange

  When Mr Grumpy died

  Who lifted the door of Khyber?

  INSIGHTS

  All is empty without love

  All is empty

  Without love

  Emptiness greater than can be conceived by the imagination

  Take the emptiness of a hungry stomach

  And multiply it a thousand times

  And still, the emptiness of a soul without love is greater.

  The body is limited, and the stomach even more so

  The soul has no physical boundary

  Physical food can fill the physical stomach

  Only spiritual love can fill the soul

  The soul:

  A wide, dark, gaping hole

  Without love

  All else is dust and air, at most

  Without love

  Love is fullness, love is complete

  Love fills, and it warms

  Love is.

  Attention = Growth

  That thing grows

  To which you give attention

  Give attention to your studies

  And your knowledge increases

  Give attention to your health

  And it improves

  Give attention to your family

  And your bonds strengthen

  When given attention

  Hearts and souls move

  Give attention to your skills

  And they get sharper

  Give attention to the old

  And blessings increase

  Give attention to children

  See how roots get solid

  Give attention to good deeds

  And experience peace

  That thing grows

  To which you give attention

  Curiosity runs forward

  Curiosity is great!

  It makes us ask questions

  And from the answers we learn

  Curiosity pushed our ancestors

  To push boundaries of existing knowledge

  And now it’s our turn

  Curiosity pushes us forward

  With the gust of wind “Why?”

  This question is great!

  The one who asks why is interested

  Interest lead to passion

  Passion for learning – an incredible state

  And what of apathy?

  Apathy doesn’t care.

  It thinks it knows everything.

  Or even if it doesn’t know

  It turns its face away

  Scared of the change it could bring

  Apathy holds us back

  In the stagnation of “So what?”

  This question is designed to kill

  Any internal desire to learn

  As well as any knowledge seekers

  Fire and strength of will

  Let apathy sit, disinterested, not caring

  Let curiosity run forward, living, and daring.

  Dendrites

  Learn! Learn!

  Something both useful and interesting!

  See how your dendrites grow

  Like branches of trees

  Densely packed

  More and more connections

  Yielding so much fruit

  In the winter of old age

  Leaves may fall

  But branches are still there

  Look up at such trees in admiration

  You’ll see the branches, dendrites

  Still there, still connected, still lively

  And more protected

  From age related decline.

  Handshake

  A person shares their concerns with you

  Listen! Don’t dwell on your own thoughts!

  When they reach out to you, by listening, you reach back

  Ah! Connection! Not virtual, but real!!

  When your soul gives you signs

  That it wants to learn, work, or give

  Listen! By listening and responding you reach back

  And then begin to heal

  When a subject reaches out to you

  Listen! To the teacher, the books

  Let yourself be gripped by the subject

  And you will have a grip on the subject too

  Yes, many times someone, yourself, other things

  Reach out to us, shake our hand

  Because their reaching out is only one side of the handshake

  Agree, reach back – the other side is you.

  Limited view

  When we’re nervous, we don’t look fully, clearly

  Outside, walking in a shopping centre

  Our gaze is leaning to one side

  A person or something we’ve seen

  Head almost locked into position

  When we’re reading something we’re not comfortable with

  A bill, a textbook, an e-mail

  We may again only read it from the sides

  The left, right, bottom or top

  When we’re not comfortable with someone’s opinion

  We may focus on one aspect of it

  Or only on ours

  Again, not seeing the full picture

  How can we take in the full scene

  Understand the information, the person

  Without accepting the full picture?

  Be open, relaxed, freer

  Live whole.