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That song reminds me of some song by another atrist which I really enjoyed hearing , I can’t really recall which :0 does anyone happens to know which track I’m looking for?
I just want to say to all of US, children of the Earth,that we have to apreciate our lives everything we have so much! It is never to late to learn how to love everything and everyone around you! Next time when you’ll go outside,look at the sky, at the trees (depends where you live :) ), in people’s eyes and think about them with love. Think about everything you see, hear, and feel with love! And all around you will response you back with even greater love! The Universe loves YOU!
Have a wonderful day, everybody!
Today I participated in my first guitar lesson. I signed up for a community education class and was the only person out of 8 students who had never played a guitar before. I learned so much this evening, 4 different beginning chords, how to hold the guitar, where to place my hands, the numbering of the fingers on my left hand, the numbering of the frets and where a fret is, how to strum and keep strumming even as I’m changing chords. The teacher was kind and very patient and I felt so happy to be there, as you can probably imagine!
I have wanted to play the guitar for as long as I can remember, and tonight I feel like I stepped onto a path that has been waiting for me all of my life. I have been dreaming off and on for the past several months, literally, of music and lyrics that I had written myself but can’t remember when I wake up.
The fingerpads on my left hand are humming. I’m sure that partly it’s because they are bruised but also because of the anticipation of playing again. Through this experience I felt something I haven’t felt for a very long time…joy!
My heart is singing. I am thankful for this feeling tonight and just wanted to share it with you.
Nanci
many things boggles my mind as of this time and for that i don’t want to pay much attention on it. probably, that’s part of my system but i have to change the way i think for the reason i’m tired of being bothered of many things – things i shouldn’t be thinking when i really don’t have to.
lets enjoy what life could really offers us… and try to drink from it every cup…
From a message I wrote to a friend today:
When all we know is “I don’t know,”
We accept that which is greater than ourselves.
The sacred scroll of truth we have sought for so long,
We find, is blank, and we know,
That the Master’s plan is revealed only onto himself.
We have no choice but to listen to the ticking of our hearts,
To be an instrument of his will.
And we understand that every moment, every action, every want
Has a purpose larger than the Universe in which it is contained,
And that is enough, for us to go on.
So we strike fear from our hearts, and we trust
That the guiding hand will lead us.
Our purpose is revealed in every whisper,
Every exchange and every stroke of the fingers
As we document our most sacred journey.
Se nada acontece por acaso, a que se deve o terrível terramoto? Estava escrito? Para tantos milhares?
É tão “estranho” ver tamanha tragédia e pensar que uma qualquer força superior nos ajuda na dor e no sofrimento…
That Earthquake was a terrible one.This is a terrible thing and my heart is with the victims.It could happen to us too(haute-savoie very moving and with the crap building I’m living in..)This is teerribel.One minute you’re here,the next you’re gone!
But a good new though by Yashua,gay marriage has been legalized in vermont.Should be legalized everywhere in the world.Want to live in a world like that.It’s just discrimination to an individue not to allow them to love.Judging someone on his/her sexual orientations is the same than judging someone on his/her color of skin.
No tolerance to intolerance!
Hi Paulo
I read The Alchemist a few months ago and it is truly a good book. I liked Santiago so much, I thought of naming my future son after him! To answer your question, I sometimes find myself more comfortable with the latter. I like to think its because I hope. But if time passes on and I have nothing to do, I can get impatient. I’m learning now to understand when to relax and when to act.
ACERCA DE LO DE SENTIRSE INUTIL CUANDO NO SE HACE NADA CREO QUE MI RESPUESTA ES SI, MUCHAS VECES UN@ NO VALORA EL MOMENTO DE NO HACER SINO QUE LO VE COMO TIEMPO PERDIDO EN EL QUE SE PUDO HACER ALGO QUE VALIERA REALMENTE LA PENA PERO SE PERDIO EN LO QUE SEA.. ES UN SENTIMIENTO DE VACIO, SE SIENTE COMO SI ESTORBARAS…
A couple of years ago, I left a good job in Manhattan to follow a dream to become a journalist. I spent time living in Mongolia, testing the waters of my dream. After landing an internship at a TV station in Ulaanbaatar, I was offered the chance to report, and later to anchor the English news in the country. Everyone told me this was wonderful, and it was. But deep down, I knew I’d missed the mark trying to target my dream, and I returned to New York, and slunk back to my old career.
But not for long.
I was a banker in those days, before this crisis hit. If you weren’t ready to ‘bite the ass off a bear’ (as our chairman once said), then you weren’t going to be much of a banker. So, one morning, I walked out. For good.
Having stumbled twice, I was gun-shy. So I began to write. 75,000 words later, I’m finishing a book. Will it be any good? Who knows. But the struggle to retain courage in the face of disbelief requires persistent pursuit. My pursuit took me back to the country where I’d first begun unearthing my dream, back to Mongolia. Years after leaving the comfort of money, expensive dinners, and a place to be every single day, I found myself ice-racing with a grizzly old nomad. On a sleigh attached to his horse. Having changed my life.
I’ve attached my blog, which includes a video of me ice-racing with the nomad: http://trishsexton.blogspot.com as well as an excerpt from the coming book. Paulo, thank you for your public steadfastness. It gives me and all of us readers courage.
Patricia Sexton
Sometimes I felt bad doing nothing though it’s time to relax before taking a move.My job is a journalist.I am afrid that someday there will be other person who is better than me so I have to run all the time.I felt very tired and need time to escape and be with myself but I can’t.That is totally wrong.I am an unhappy person.Life is complicated because I did it.If you ask how’s about today? I felt better but I still fear to lose what I used to have and I really don’t how if it’s worth to keep or not.
Today gay marriage was legalized in Vermont, making it the third state that allows gay marriage. I am so happy that tolernace is rising in the US. I hope this serves as a lesson to everyone that human rights will not be repressed for much longer to people with a different sexual orientation. Love will conquer hate!
Il bilancio delle vittime del terremoto che ha colpito la regione Abruzzo in Italia è ancora impreciso,attualmente ci sono 207 morti, 40 dispersi, un migliaio di feriti di cui 100 gravi, 17.000 non hanno più una casa e 50.000 persone non possono rientrare nelle strutture gravemente danneggiate.
E’ terribile il compito del riconoscimento di un cadavere per i familiari…un uomo ha perso sua moglie e le 4 figlie.
E’ stata davvero commovente la notizia del ritrovamento di una bambina ancora viva tra le braccia di una madre che con questo ultimo gesto è riuscita a proteggerla. Ma poi allo stesso modo riemergono dalle macerie 3 corpi morti…una mamma e le sue 2 figlie…
Questa mattina ancora paura…un’altra forte scossa…magnitudo 4,7.
La procura della città L’Aquila ha aperto in modo simbolico un fascicolo di inchiesta contro ignoti indagando per disastro e omicidio colposo.
Ma 150 persone sono state estratte vive da quell’inferno di polvere ed è meravigliosa la reazione di tutti a questa sciagura: un fornaio e una farmacista hanno subito riaperto i loro negozi e la proprietaria di un negozio di generi alimentari condivide con altri ciò che resta, 5.500 volontari sono lì in azione, loro non dormono e scavano, da tutte le parti d’ Italia negli uffici della protezione civile arrivano messaggi di disponibilità per ospitare chi ha bisogno, il presidente della regione ha dovuto dire basta con il sangue da donare all’ AVIS perché ce n’era già in abbondanza, arrivano tyr da tutta Italia con cibo, tende, coperte e qualsiasi cosa di cui c’è bisogno, tanti Stati del mondo sono pronti a sostenerci.
Dopo 30 ore di attesa, una donna di 98 anni è sopravvissuta e quando il giornalista le ha chiesto –cosa hai fatto in queste 30 ore?- la risposta è stata –Ho lavorato…ho fatto l’uncinetto…ma almeno fatemi pettinare!-
Voglio ricordare oggi la grande solidarietà di questo popolo coraggioso che spera e che lotta contro il tempo in nome della vita.
The budget of the victims of the earthquake that has hit the Abruzzi region in Italy is still not precise, currently there are 207 dead people, 40 dispersed ones, thousand hurt (100 are serious), 17,000 do not have more a house and 50,000 persons cannot re-enter in the structures seriously damaged.
For the relatives the task of the acknowledgment of a corpse is terrible… a man has lost his wife and the 4 daughters. The news of the finding of a child still alive between the arms of a mother has been indeed moving who with this last gesture has succeeded protect it.
But then, in the same way, emerge from the ruins 3 dead bodies… a mother and her 2 daughters… This morning still fear… an other strong jolt… magnitudo 4,7.
The procura of the city L’Aquila has opened in symbolic way an issue of inquiry against unknown people inquiring for disaster and culpable homicide.
But 150 persons have been extracted alive from that powder hell and are wonderful the reaction of all to this disaster: a baker and a druggist have quickly reopened their stores and the owner of a store of alimentary kinds shares what is left with others, 5,500 volunteers are there in action, they does not sleep and digs, everywhere of Italy, in the offices of the civil protection, availability messages arrive in order to accommodate who have need, the president of the region have had to say enough with the blood to donate to national association AVIS because it was already in abundance, arrive tyr from all Italy with food, stretch, covered and any thing of which there is need, many States of the world are ready to support us.
After 30 hours of wait, a woman of 98 years is survivor and when the journalist has asked to she- what you have made in these 30 hours? – the answer has been – I have worked… I have made crochet work… but at least left me to comb! –
Today I want to remember the great solidarity of this brave people that hope and fight against the time in the name of the life.
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“Why shouldn’t I cut someone else’s throat to snatch what I deserve? Why shouldn’t I be blatant about my needs? Why shouldn’t I cut the crap of decency and get straight to the point instead? Why shouldn’t I simply be a predator? Why shouldn’t I push the other in the crowd to get to my prize? Tell me mom, why shouldn’t I?”
His mother thought for a while and then replied, “Have you ever seen an eagle?” The boy nodded. “Have you ever seen a dove?” The boy frowned but nodded again. His mother continued, “An eagle can fly much higher than a dove. Much higher! It’s fiercer than a dove too. Anytime! And being an eagle may surely help you fly higher than high in your life but in the end, my son, people only admire a dove. For – doesn’t matter its limitations – it’s a dove that inspires love in the hearts of people – the kind of love that instills humanity in a man. And it’s the image of a dove that stays on, in a pleasant way, long after it’s gone.”
Author: NovoneeL ChakrabortY
[taken from NovoSphere: nbconline.blogspot.com]
I love the question. I now belong to the second category- happy to do nothing – have faith that i will be provided for- have faith that i can spring into activity and feel motivated at the right times.
But i was not always like that. Please see my blog since it expresses some thoughts in my new ‘slow’ living.
Ah si je savais comment dessiner et peindre,je pourrais alors peindre ce magnifique reve dont j’ai revé il y a 3 nuits.Surréaliste comme un tableau de Dali.Magnifique et dont l’interpretation est de bon augure avec tous les éléments.Je pourrais toujours le décrire avec des mots mais ca rendrait pas pareil.Tant pis.
Have a nice day Liina,Santosh and everyone!
Dear all,
Song of the day !
http://mybheja.blogspot.com/2009/04/you-are-holy-prince-of-peace.html
Enjoy !
God bless you all !
The wild animals run, when they see the danger. After running, they will feel safe. We, humans, are distressed by the future comings and by the things from past.
A quotation from Lucius Annaeus Seneca (From the philosophical book: ‘Moral Letters to Lucilius’)
Love,
Liina L.