What sound does forgiveness make?

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is an act of will--namely both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. - M. Scott Peck

 

The sound of my heart breaking and expanding at the same time. Wish You Well - Katie Herzig"

Love is...

Love is giving someone the power to break your heart but trusting them not to. – Anonymous

 

 

Love Thyself

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha

Shhhh.....

The first duty of love is to listen. – Paul Tillich

Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) - Beach Boys

I can hear so much in your sighs
And I can see so much in your eyes
There are words we both could say
But don't talk, put your head on my shoulder

Come close, close your eyes and be still
Don't talk, take my hand and let me hear your heart beat
Being here with you feels so right
We could live forever tonight
Lets not think about tomorrow
And don't talk put your head on my shoulder

Come close, close your eyes and be still
Don't talk, take my hand and listen to my heart beat
Listen, listen, listen.

Don't talk, put your head on my shoulder
Don't talk, close your eyes and be still
Don't talk, put your head on my shoulder
Don't talk, close your eyes and be still
Don't talk, put your head on my shoulder

Dare to have feelings.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. – Dr. Joyce Brothers

You've been acting awful tough lately
Smoking a lot of cigarettes lately
But inside, you're just a little baby
It's okay to say you've got a weak spot
You don't always have to be on top
Better to be hated than love, love, loved for what you're not

You're vulnerable, you're vulnerable
You are not a robot
You're loveable, so loveable
But you're just troubled

Guess what? I am not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I am not a robot, a robot

You've been hanging with the unloved kids
Who you never really liked and you never trusted
But you are so magnetic, you pick up all the pins
Never committing to anything
You don't pick up the phone when it ring, ring, rings
Don't be so pathetic, just open up and sing

I am vulnerable, I am vulnerable
I am not a robot
You're loveable, so loveable
But you're just troubled

Guess what? I am not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I am not a robot, a robot

Can you teach me how to feel real?
Can you turn my power on?
Well, let the drum beat drop

Guess what? I am not a robot
Guess what? I am not a robot

Guess what? I am not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I am not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I am not a robot, a robot
Guess what? I am not a robot, a robot 

It's the effort

And with the next race in mind, each of us, in our place, will most likely silently go about our usual training. Even if, seen from the outside, or from some higher vantage point, this sort of life looks pointless or futile, or even extremely inefficient, it doesn’t bother me. Maybe it’s some pointless act like, as I’ve said before, pouring water into an old pan that has a hole in the bottom, but at least the effort you put into it remains. Whether it’s good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts. But even activities that appear fruitless don’t necessarily end up so. That’s the feeling I have, as someone who’s felt this, who’s experienced it. – Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Do a good deed today... for yourself

He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted. He who puts off impurity thereby puts on purity. If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuva Farewell
by Paul Pena
Pena: vocals, guitar, dijeridu;
Ondar : vocals, Tuvan banjo

Written upon Paul's return to America from Tuva in 1995.

Here I am on my way now, on my way back home,
On this winged horse I've mounted, on my way alone.
I've been listening to the music of nature
I've been tuned to the wonder of the earth,
I've been listening and I've been relating
Now I feel the reason for our birth.
Everything here sings like a bird on the wing!
Now I get back home and find out they think it's all for show;
Now I get back home and find out they don't know!

Here I am in Tuva, listening to the sound,
Here I sit at the center of Asia, with my ear to the ground.
Lord, its been a long time, since I've felt so free!
Through the hardships and heartaches,
Through the tiredness of body and mind I see
That every heart needs to sing like a bird on the wing!
There's so many things you've got to know how to do
To get along; All I know to do is sing.
My friends they sing with me in some way,
That's the way it seems!

Yrlar sen, Kongar-ol! (Sing it, Kongar-ol!)

Got me a brother in prison, I know nothing about.
All I know is when he sings it's beauty;
His heart and soul come out.
They can't tell me nothing about him,
Don't know [if he's] dead or alive,
But I will sing to my Ezhim (friend) Oidupaa
If I can help him to survive, I don't know.
If I don't, Lord, his memory will remain!
Me and my friends we've heard his voice,
And now we know his name;
Me and my friends, we're gonna play his music to the world
And listen with no shame!

[So] here I am on my way now, on my way back home,
On this winged horse I've mounted, riding on alone.
I will listen to the music of nature
I will listen to the wonder of the earth.
I will listen and keep relating
You would do well to do some work on that, my friend;
If we don't, I know nothing will remain! What a shame!
Me and my friends we will remember all the love we've known.
We will tell everybody: In Tuva we've found another home!

Here I am at the center of Asia.

Tunap bodap borarymga-yo,
Tuva chonum bergenein-e.

Repeat

Every time I think of my people;
I am honored by the Tuvan people.

Eshterim tyvanyng chonum-nu
Eshterim tyvanyng ynak men!

Repeat

My friends, the Tuvan people,
My Tuvan friends, I love you!

I Wish You Well

I wish you good friends that always treat you fair

Wanna wish you ribbons to tie around your hair

I wish you, truckloads of cheer

and many happy years

– I Wish You Well, Bill Withers

Listen

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. – Richard Moss

Daniel Johnston again

To understand and be understood is to be free – Daniel Johnston

Love. Life. Meaning.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain. – Emily Dickinson

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Yourself ,.. Completely

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Smile.

A smile is the beginning of peace. – Mother Teresa

It's Alive!!

When you feel most alive, find out why. This is one guest you won't greet twice. - Kabir

Hammock - Breathturn from David Altobelli on Vimeo.

Sad Songs Really Do Say So Much

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else. – Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips)

Your Own Private Quietude

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. ~Marcus Aurelius

Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno (excerpt)

Open Your Heart, Free Your Soul

The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightning and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not. - The Upanishads

On waking after the accident

I was presented with the "whole picture"

as they say, magnificently detailed,

a child's diorama of what life appears to be:

staring at the picture I became drowsy

with relief when I noticed a yellow

dot of light in the lower right-hand corner.
I unhooked the machines and tubes and crawled

to the picture, with an eyeball to the dot

of light which turned out to be a miniature

tunnel at the end of which I could see

mountains and stars whirling and tumbling,

sheets of emotions, vertical rivers, upside

down lakes, herds of unknown mammals, burds

shedding feathers and regrowing them instantly,

snakes with feathered heads eating their own

shed skins, fish swimming straight up,

the bottom of Isaiah's robe, live whales

on dry ground, lions drinking from a golden

bowl of milk, the rush of night,

and somewhere in this the murmur of gods--

a tree-rubbing-tree music, a sweet howl

of water and rock-grating-rock, fire

hissing from fissures, the moon settled

comfortably on the ground, beginning to roll.

-- Jim Harrison, from The Theory and Practice of Rivers

Forgiveness: It's what for life

To be able to move on, one has to learn to forgive not only the person (or people) who have done one wrong but also oneself  - Eugenia Tripputi

She's An Angel - TMBG

Be your own Truth

Be a lamp unto your self. Be your own confidence.  Hold to the truth within yourself as to the only Truth. - Buddha

If you have 3 good friends in your lifetime, consider yourself wealthy

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. – Elie Weisel

 
Bill Withers - Lean On Me
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Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you WON’T let show

you just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that YOU’LL understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For ,it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on


YA just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that YOU’LL understand
We all need somebody to lean on

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me
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