Awesome response. The poem Wasteland poem was also written shortly after the ending of World War I and there were many areas that looked like wasteland so it's an effective reminder of what man is capable of doing. Also in earlier times when battles were more dependent on good weather typically April the troops would stir after their winter encampments and begin fighting again. Another sad reminder of man's creating wasteland and burials of the dead.
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.
"You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of
wisdom."
"The memory of the past unfulfilled desires traps energy which manifests itself as a person. When its charge gets exhausted the person dies.
Unfulfilled desires are carried over into the next birth.
Self-identification with the body creates ever fresh desires;
and there is no end to them unless this mechanism of bondage is clearly seen.
It is clarity that is liberating,
for you cannot abandon desire unless its causes and effects are clearly seen.
I do not say that the same person is reborn. It dies and dies for good. But its memories remain and their desires and fears. They
supply the energy for a new person. The real takes no part in it, but makes it possible by giving it the light."
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