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.
Man is really a being who is self-aware. Even if he has slipped and fallen,
is it not his bounden duty to use as a lever the very earth to which he has tumbled, and raise himself up again?
Besides, one does not fall so often.
As a man, constant effort is his duty.
If he does not awaken to the consciousness of his own Self,
what has he achieved?
He has but wasted his life.
How many lives are frittered away age after age in endless coming and going.
Find out who you are.
Discover the significance of the round of births and deaths, its cause and where it leads.
When man becomes a traveller on the path to his inner being, the distance that separates him from his goal [of Reality] gradually vanishes.
You will most certainly have to undertake this pilgrimage to Immortality, trampling under foot hundreds and hundreds of obstacles and impediments.
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