Thursday, October 29, 2009

Listening to the song


I was listening to Lara Fabian in the radio sings Yeliel, My Angel. the lyrics:
Yeliel, My Angel
Just like the sea, no one possesses you
And no one can go down to the deepest side of you
Just like a tree, decades and memories
Articulate and seal everyone of your dreams

When I need you, I secretly sing you this part of my soul

Yeliel, my angel, know that I can hear you
And every word you speak is holy wind caressing me
Yeliel, my angel, know that I can see you
And when I fall, I feel your arms around my destiny protecting me

I do believe some things are mysteries
The simple fact that we stand alive and we breathe
Why do I love? Why do I hate and die?
Where do these things all lie? I don't know why I cry

When I need you, I secretly sing you this part of my soul

Yeliel, my angel, know that I can hear you
And every word you speak is holy wind caressing me
Yeliel, my angel, know that I can see you
When I fall, I feel your arms around my destiny, protecting me
Yeliel, you are protecting me

Why do I love? Why do I hate and die?
Where do these things all lie? I don't know why I cry

When I need you I secretly sing you this part of my soul

Yeliel, my angel, know that I can hear you
And every word you speak is holy wind caressing me
Yeliel, my angel, know that I can see you
And when I fall, I feel your arms around my destiny

Yeliel, my angel, know that I can hear you
And every word you speak is holy wind caressing me
Yeliel, my angel, know that I can see you
And when I fall, I feel your arms around my destiny, protecting

Yeliel, my angel, know that I can feel you
And every word you speak is holy wind caressing me
Yeliel, my angel, know that I can see you
And when I fall, I feel your arms around my destiny

Inner Contentment


Dalai Lama writes in the Leader's Way-"The root of happinessis is not in what we desire or what we get but somewhere altogether different. It stems from a place of inner contentment that exists no matter what we gain or achieve."

He writes also-"The essence of Buddhism can be summed up in the two concepts of Right View and Right Conduct."
and..."the greatest treasure humans can have is self-confidence."
also-"the purpose of training the mind is to be able to be calm, collected, and concentrated in all circumstances."

Friday, October 16, 2009

PLEASURE


On our way to St. George,Utah to attend the World Senior Games, we drove through the Virgin River Gorge. The landscape is vast varied colorful rocky mountains.
I could feel the presence of something powerful and kind.

"What is it that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding that human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea-to discover a great thought-an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plow had gone over before...To be first-that's the idea. To do something,say something, see something before anybody else-these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace...These are the men who have really lived-who have actually comprehended what pleasure is-who have crowded long lifetimes of ecstasy into a single moment."-Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad (1869)