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“That Shadow, my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering, How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits, How often I question and doubt whether that is really me…!” - Walt Whitman “That “I” that floats along the wave of time, from a distance I watch him With the dust and the water, With the fruit and the flower, With the All he is rushing forward. He is always on the surface, tossed by the waves and dancing to the rhythm of joy and suffering. The least loss makes him suffer, the least wound hurts him – Him I see from afar. That “I” is not my real self; I am still within myself, I do not float in the stream of death. I am free, I am desireless, I am peace, I am illumined – Him I see from afar.” - Rabindranath Tagore The above two poems.....have a striking similarity.......written by two great poets at different times and different geographic locations...... Thoughts synchronise! Great sp...