Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?
Interpretation
The quote suggests a contemplation on the nature of dreams and aspirations, questioning whether they are found within us or in the distant future.
Pablo Neruda's quote invites us to reflect on our aspirations and the concept of fulfillment. The metaphor of the rainbow, often associated with hope and beauty, raises the question of whether our deepest desires are rooted in our inner selves or if they lie perpetually out of reach on the horizon. It emphasizes the duality of our search for happiness, suggesting that what we seek might be both an internal journey and an external pursuit.
In practice
In a graduation speech about pursuing your dreams and internal aspirations.
Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?
I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.β - Verb.
Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout.
I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.
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