The gap
between
knowing and doing
can be as wide
as a universe
says Debbie
Bridging it is
a struggle
a daily toil
and on some
luminous days
sometimes succeed
in narrowing
the gap
and even slip
from doing
to being
This poem was posted on Twitter by R Sriram in response to a Confucian Proverb I posted: “It’s not the knowing that is difficult. But the doing.”
Sriram is not just a voracious reader, but one of the most thoughtful people I have met. The lines he posted struck a chord with me someplace.