In Japan I saw very old trees. In the USA trees are not always valued for their "inner spirit" nor the joy they give others. One tree I saw in Takayama was 800+ years old. Americans cannot fathom that.
Not only do you summarize one of Chaplin's movies - City Lights (and I do believe the flower girl was blind) - but you manage to weave in Chaplin's life story and why 'The Tramp' was created in the first place.
He came from nothing and became such an icon, all while showing the world that you did not have to lose your humanity in the process.
Thanks for joining me in celebrating Charlie Chaplin's 136th birthday with your tribute!
Yes, I agree. Fascist/autocratic/theocratic states in Russia and the USA will force Europe and Canada into a partnership that may benefit the world. May they be the light going forward.
Very well said, Sue. I agree with life is satisfying once we stop focusing on other's happiness and instead of focusing on ourselves. It was a difficult lesson but one that changed my life.
The sage Patanjali formulated the Yoga system into eight steps for achieving the goal:
1. Avoid unrighteous behaviour--yama.
2. Follow certain moral and spiritual percepts--niyama.
3. Learn to be still in body and mind, for where motion ceases, there begins the perception of God--asana.
4. While concentrating on the state of peace, practise control of the life force in the body--pranayama.
5. When your mind is your own, that is, under your control through pranayama, and then you can give it to God-- pratyahara.
6. Then begins meditation: first, concentrate on one of God's cosmic manifestations such as love, wisdom, joy --dharana.
7. What follows in meditation is an expansion of the realization of God's infinite omnipresent nature--dhyana.
8. When the soul merges as one with God, who is everlasting, ever-conscious, ever-new Bliss, that is the goal--samadhi.
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