Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Bonsai of Thoughts: One Hundred Eighty-Three

1. Humans do not accept truth. They accept only what they understand.


2. No, you are nothing special.
All who suffer in solitude are just like you.

3. Women have only one problem: overthinking.

4. I keep her close to my soul.
Tell me, have I lost much by failing to keep such a person at home?

5. What is he so angry about,
whose whole body bears only the marks of failure?

6. I have mummified you within this heart.
When I leave, I will take you with me.

7. It's all just wordplay—
the credit for finding poetry here belongs entirely to you.

8. Intelligence comes through knowledge,
genius comes through meditation.

9. Whenever I keep thinking,
where are you? where are you?
...just then, somewhere far away,
a bird calls.

10. The bird came and perched on my shoulder.
Then carried me away on its wings.

11. Come, let us sacrifice the pleasures of the gross
and become subtle.

12. Obstruct a fool and he becomes more foolish.
Obstruct a wise man and he becomes wiser.
Without obstacles, nothing happens in this world.

13. Don't hold back time. Let it go.
If you don't let it pass, time will strangle you to death.

14. In a sky where no birds fly,
how can I remain?

15. Each bird has
its own sky.

16. When the flame trees bloom,
the sky changes color.

17. I am not love-struck, but desire-struck.
If you want to come close, know this before you come.

18. I keep searching for that person
who doesn't know me, but will want to.

19. What I see is more than seeing.
What I don't see—only that much is truly seeing.

20. I am not alone,
I want to be alone.
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