How noble thoughts become a burden

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Brains can so us no good,only our minds can and the more i listen to the popular track of Johm Lennon's 'IMAGINE', this thought of mine gets confirmed.There is one line in this song which attracts me to it more than any other line and that is 'imagine all the people living for today'.The inevitable question that comes is how many of us really live for the present?Even i don't and i wish i could.A place in eternity with no country,no religion,no heaven and no hell and possession indeed is a rare piece of thought for such an existence of almost nothing with just the sky above is what lennon asks us to imagine and knowing the lesser mortal capacity himself answers in his song 'i wonder if you can'.When he sings 'they may say i am a dreamer,but i am not the only one',is indeed linked with when he sings 'i hope someday you join us'-how many of us can really dare to dream such a noble thought of unity.We are all busy with ourselves.Nothing beyond our own motives matter to us.Perhaps this too was Lennon's dream of a motive.A motive which only great souls like Lennon and Gandhi can perceive.All we can hope is that someday when we are as wise as they were that we shall too be able to substantiate ourselves with a bigger dream and dare to visualize a world which could have but did not exist becaude we run after what is transient,what is virtual,what is materialistic.To illustrate a place as beautiful as heaven and to reflect what is the essence of life needs sentiments which cannot be easily be vanquished because the germ of such a subversion lies at the core of human psyche,probably this is the reason that we think of heaven as something that can exist only after life. P.S-Even Bacon in his essay 'Of Truth' tells us that money and position are important goals of life,not that he is unaware of the presence of higher truths but he knows of how commonly unattainable they are.

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