The fuse is lit...

By Vichara

I would like to take a moment to quote from one of my favorite spiritual writers, Eknath Easwaran. If you are not familiar with this wonderful professor, I highly recommend him. “So much energy is spent on trying to rise above the fray in order to understand your place in our own lifetime. We are also bound by the limitations that time places on our body and mind. With the fuse lit when we are born we most of the time fail to see the lit fuse until there is very little of it left before we combust from this world to whatever is next”. I know it may seem difficult to do but we should try to recognize that your “fuse” is lit. Not to create a heightened sense of urgency but to enhance the quality of each moment. Elevate the presence of each day from a series of mundane moments to a cavalcade of compassionate acts not only for yourself but for the world around you.

cognate • \KAHG-nayt\ • adjective
*1 : of the same or similar nature
2 : related; especially : related by descent from the same ancestral language
Example Sentence:
Sean is a professor of astronomy whose background includes extensive work in the cognate fields of mathematics and physics.
Did you know?
The story of "cognate" is all relative: that is, it's all about relatives. Cognate words share an ancestor, like "allude" and "prelude" (which both trace to the Latin root "ludere") and the English "brother" and the German "Bruder" (which are both related to the Greek "phrater"). Cognate languages, like French, Spanish, and Italian, descend from the same ancestral language. People related through a common ancestor are cognate, and groups of people, such as tribes, can be cognate to one another. "Cognate" also describes things related in a more figurative way, as in "cognate developments," "cognate disciplines," or "cognate problems." "Cognate" itself comes from the Latin "cognatus" which traces to Latin "nasci" meaning "to be born." Some words cognate to "cognate" include "innate," "nascent," "native," and "Renaissance.