Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1

This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedanta. Thomas Hood was a nineteenth century English poet known for his elegant, Often melancholy verse. His eighteen twenty six poems.

I remember, I remember captures a feeling that is familiar to many adults. Especially its wistful last lines. I remember I remember The fir tree is dark and high. I used to think their slender tops were close against the sky.

It was a childish ignorance. But now'tis little joy. To know I'm farther off from heaven. Than when I was a boy. Thomas Hood's poem gestures to the reality that as grown-ups, many of us lack the effortless sense of connection and awe.

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