If I were to begin my life again
\nI would spend more time playing in my childhood,
\nI would spend more time dreaming,
\nI would think less about myself and more on the world beyond.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again
\nI would try to be less shy and tell people more what was on my mind,
\nI would support the idealists and the sensitive and debunk the crass and the selfish,
\nI would bring in my life things that are beautiful and push out the things that are ugly.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again
\nI would read more philosophy and poetry,
\nI would spend more time in mountains and lakes,
\nI would look more often at trees and flowers.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again I would go in teaching children,
\nI would focus more on physics and less on applied sciences,
\nI would try to find out what were God\u2019s thoughts when He created the universe –
\nRest of the knowledge is details.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again
\nI would live in a village with not more than 50 people in it,
\nIt would have streamlets and hills,
\nI would have a hut with a deck and backyard.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again
\nI would have no more than five friends \u2013
\nIn spiritual bond and universal brotherhood –
\nSharing with them travails and triumphs on the journey of life.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again
\nI would worry less about money and material possessions
\nAnd what others thought about me,
\nAnd think more about beauty, truth, and God.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again
\nI would spend more time in writing and reading
\nAnd listening to music and going to museums,
\nI would gather less things and give away and discard more.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again
\nI would think more on eternity,
\nI would spend more time helping the unfortunate people than on myself,
\nI would meditate more and waste less time on life\u2019s insanities and inane things.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again
\nI would think less of world and more of God,
\nI would think of myself more a part of the universe
\nAnd less of being a denizen of a planet called Earth.<\/p>\n
If I were to begin my life again
\nI would try to spend every day as the first day of life,
\nWith verve, wonder, gratitude, and love
\nAnd yet feel to be a handful of dust on horizon ready to dissolve in eternity any moment.<\/p>\n
Suffern, New York, 8.26.10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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