{"id":670,"date":"2010-01-02T16:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=670"},"modified":"2010-01-02T16:09:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T16:09:02","slug":"happy-new-year-eternally-and-momentarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/happy-new-year-eternally-and-momentarily\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year, Eternally and Momentarily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_0986.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shekharkapur.com\/blog\/archives\/IMG_0986.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" \/><br \/>\nwhat do we search for<br \/>\nwhen all existence is here ?<br \/>\nin the snowflake that melts<br \/>\nbefore you catch it ?<br \/>\nin the dust particle<br \/>\nof the first ray of light<br \/>\nwhich disappears the moment<br \/>\nyou try and isolate it ?<br \/>\nin your own shadow,<br \/>\nthat changes<br \/>\nthe moment you turn around to look at it ?<br \/>\nall existence lives<br \/>\neternally, momentarily<br \/>\nin the moment<br \/>\nyou experience yourself<br \/>\nas part of it,<br \/>\nif you don&#8217;t try<br \/>\nand define it<br \/>\nisolate it<br \/>\nmeasure it<br \/>\nand capture it<br \/>\nbeyond that moment<br \/>\nI wish you all an eternal momentary happiness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what do we search for when all existence is here ? in the snowflake that melts before you catch it ? in the dust particle of the first ray of light which disappears the moment you try and isolate it ? in your own shadow, that changes the moment you turn around to look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-search-for-the-self"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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