To Be or Not to Be

to BE or Not to BE . . .
"WHY" IS THE QUESTION !!!

Life is, or at least this life has been, a constant struggle between opposite poles.

To be, or not to be. To do, or not to do. To go, or not to go. To, or not to…..

As Hafez Said:

"where is my ruined life,
and where the fame of the noble deeds?
Look on my long-drawn road, and whence it came, and where it leads?"

Unsettling truth is the question of the day, while the foggy shadows of doubt covers the passages of the night. And the questions, the dizzying questions, are the only permanent companion of this wanderer of ages.

The relationship of Right and Virtue, the quarrel of Preacher and the Flute, the dance of moth around the candle light, the question of what to be? The quest for the truth.

But, Why?

Why all these questions? If there is only one truth, one absolute, one light, then why all these forks in the road? Why all these relative quandaries? Why all these shades of gray?

Are we the subject of a Great Universal Joke? Or is there a reason, a purpose for all this?

Hafez Says:

"Compare the feeling of your enemy’s heart from your visit?
What joy the heart of your friend feels from seeing you?
The same as the light of an extinguished lamp
Compared with bright glowing of the candle of truth"

THE ANSWER IS IN THE QUESTION !!!

If only I learn to look at the face of life as if I was looking at the face of my love, then my heart would glow with the bright sunshine of truth.

Otherwise, if I look at life as if I look at the face of my enemy, with envy, fear, hate, how can I expect any joy?

So, do I want to be, or not to be? Is there any more questions??

F Tony Hosseini