The Cairn
A way to be remembered.
Look! A cairn left by another. Careful balance.
Stopping, admiring, thinking: what does this mark?
Who left this?
What was their frame of mind? Were they in sorrow, reverence, joy?
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If I built a cairn, what would I leave behind?
Is my legacy to be an inscrutable pile of stone, Lord?
Let me leave a mark on those around me, that we may remember one another in our stories unto the ages.
– from the mountain
Consider:
Can I send ripples of love to my fellows?
Reading:
“Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage which we did not take.” — T. S. Eliot
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“Your own self is your master; who else could be?” — Dhammapada 160
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“The memory of the just is blessed.” — Proverbs 10:7 (KJV)
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