I Think, Therefore I Am

What Is Existence?

What does it mean to be? To say I am? 

This Haiku-like blog is the sequel to the previous blog: 

A Chorus of Frogs After the Rain (just below this one)

"Diagram from one of René Descartes' works." https://commons.wikimedia.org

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes

Also: Cogito ergo sum.
Je pense, donc je suis.

Portrait of Rousseau dressed in an Armenian outfit.

I feel, therefore I am.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(a distillation of Rousseau's thought)

I continue, therefore I am.

Rick Doble

Yet even more fundamental than thought or feeling
is that awake or asleep we continue
and keep on going as long as we exist.

A Chorus of Frogs After the Rain

The Rain Is Over

We know the rain is over --

the rain so hard it shook the roof,

blurred the windows,

and darkened the sky

till it was almost night --

We know the rain is over

because now

the choir of frogs

has grown

and reached a pitch

almost as loud as the rain

A chorus with that traditional song

and those old familiar words:

"I am"

"I am"

"I am"