Rabbit hole

La Foule

2007-07-09T00:40:00.000+01:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbsl5_203Ms

translation:
I re-examine the city celebrates some and is delirious about it
Suffocating under the sun and the joy
And I hear in the music the cries, the laughter
Who burst and rebound around me
And lost among these people who hustle me
Dazed, disabled, I remain there
When suddenly, I am turned over, it moves back myself,
And crowd comes to throw me between her arms…
Carried by the crowd which trails us
Us involves
Crushed one against the other
We form one body
And the flood without effort
Us pushes, connected one and the other
And leaves us both
Opened out, enivrés and happy.
Involved by the crowd which springs
And which dances
An insane farandole
Our two hands remain welded
And sometimes raised
Our two intertwined bodies fly away
And both fall down
Opened out, enivrés and happy…
And joy splashed by its smile
Transpierce me and flashes back at the bottom of me
But suddenly I push a cry among the laughter
When crowd comes to tear off it among my arms…
Carried by the crowd which trails us
Us involves
Us moves away one from the other
I fight and I debates
But the sound of its voice
Choke yourself in the laughter of the others
And I shout of pain, fury and rage
And I cry…
Involved by the crowd which springs
And which dances
An insane farandole
I am carried with far
And I contract my fists, cursing the crowd which steals me
The man that it had given me
And that I never found…

look and yearn

2007-05-29T20:28:00.000+01:00

" Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul...it is better in prayer to have a heart without words, than words without a heart"

- Mahtama Ghandi

The politics of interpretation

2007-03-18T12:14:00.000Z

This is a quote by a Saudi Prince interviewed by an English magazine, possibly Tattler. I apologize for I can't seem to recall the name of the Prince. Nevertheless, O3bal our Royality giving a clever critique of our own country.

" There's probably a degree of truth to both interpretations, although in their defence, King Fahd was genuinely keen on promoting cultural activities and Prince AbdulAziz has real fondness of Islamic architecture. You see, there are degrees of truth to all the stock/shock portraits of Modern Arabia. Veiled women swathed in black abayas: victims or traditionalists? The entire country stopping Five times a day for prayers: devotion or ostentation? the Bedoiun-meets-Balenciaga shopping culture: trashy or trendy? Interpretation is a matter of politics."
end quote.

U plavu Zoru (In the blue dawn)

2006-11-14T22:12:00.000Z

One of Pink Martini's soulful music. U plavu Zoru is Croatian for In the blue dawn. highly recommend listening to it.

Tiha noc Silent night
Sjene su u bijegu The shadows are on the run
Ja cujem zvuk I hear a sound
Sta blize zove me That's calling me nearer

U plavu zoru In the blue dawn
Sa svjetlom tu With the light here
Na moja vrata On my door
Ti stizes You arrive
Naci ces You will find
Praznu postelju moju My empty bed
Dok vlak nosi While a train carries
Me daleko Me far away

Monalisa

2006-11-09T02:52:00.000Z

one of my favorite quotes. Everytime I read it and I've read it several times, i think this is the answer to any question anyone can have about anything. Its like the monalisa of quotations by Mr.Nelson Mandela

"We fear that we are inadequate, but our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be these things? You are a child of God! Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people around you won't feel insecure. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to manifest the glory of God within us; it is in everyone. And, as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically releases others." .........sigh

what reason is or not

2006-11-08T22:36:00.000Z

Reason, for the philosophe, (the enlightened thinker, philosopher, the rational) , what grace is for the Christian.
It is grace which impels the Christians to act;it is reason which impels the philosophe.

Other men are swept along by their passions without reflecting before they take action: they are men who walk in darkness; on the other hand the philosophe, even in his passions, acts only after reflecting; he is walking at night, but there is a torch in front of him.

The philosophe bases his principles on an infinite number of particular observations. The people adopt the priniciple without thinking about the observation which have led to do it: they think the maxim exists as it were on its own, but the philosophe goes back to the sources of the maxim; he examines its origins, he knows its true value, and uses as much of it as suits him.

....For the philosophe truth is not a mistress who corrupts his imagination and which he believes he can find everywhere; he limits himself to being able to distinguish it when he can percieve it. He does not confuse it with probability; he takes as true what is true, as false what is false, as doubtful what is doubtful and as probable what is only probable. He does more, in that a great strength of the philosophe is that, when he has no reason to judge, he can suspend judgement.

-Anon, "Philosophe", in the Encyclopedie 1765 (translated version)

عساكم من عوادة

2006-10-22T20:08:00.000+01:00

Eid Mubarek to
every muslim.

Laughter

2006-10-19T00:49:00.000+01:00

Allow the poem to speak to you, whenever you are ready to listen.

by
Khwaja Shams ud-Din Hafiz-i Shirazi, 1326-1390

What is laughter? What is laughter?
It is God waking up! O it is God waking up!

It is the sun poking its sweet head out
From behind a cloud
You have been carrying too long,
Veiling your eyes and heart.

It is Light breaking ground for a great Structure
That is your Real body - called Truth.

It is happiness applauding itself and then taking flight
To embrace everyone and everything in this world.

Laughter is the polestar
Held in the sky by our Beloved,
Who eternally says,

“Yes, dear ones, come this way,
Come this way towards Me and Love!

Come with your tender mouths moving
And your beautiful tongues conducting songs

And with your movements - your magic movements
Of hands and feet and glands and cells - Dancing!

Know that to God’s Eye,
All movement is a Wondrous Language,
And Music - such exquisite, wild Music!”

O what is laughter, Hafiz?
What is this precious love and laughter
Budding in our hearts?

It is the glorious sound
Of a soul waking up!

~ Hafiz ~

The Invitation

2006-09-30T00:53:00.000+01:00

It doesnt interest me what you do for a living

I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing

It does not interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love , for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It does not interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals, or have you become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or even fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own , if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It does not interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself, if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul and what it craves.

I want to know if you see beauty , even when its not pretty, every day and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours or mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon "YES "!!

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair , weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back

it doesn't interest me where or what or with whom u have studied. I want to know what sustains you , from the inside, when all else falls away

I want to know if can be alone with yourself , and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Silence

2006-09-17T01:58:00.000+01:00

http://www.just-a-minute.com

Ghandi

2006-09-11T01:11:00.000+01:00

If by strength is meant moral power, then a woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self -sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? without her , man could not be. If non violence is the law of our being, then the future is with woman. Who can make a more affective appeal to the heart , than a woman?

babasheera

2006-09-06T23:54:00.000+01:00

just a goodluck charm for myself as I am about to embark into something I don't quite believe in, but what the heck, I'll live.