To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra

Year end's approaching and it's time to select a song of the year. And it's called To build a home by The Cinematic Orchestra and it has been playing in my head for several months thus an enchanting music score. Don't get played by the music title for it is not all about building a home and if you listen closely to the lyrics, the song carries metaphor and meanings behind every single word. I will leave you with the lyrics to ponder a while.

There is a house built out of stone

Wooden floors, walls and window sills

Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust

This is a place where I don't feel alone

This is a place where I feel at home

'Cause, I built a home

For you

For me

Until it disappeared

From me

From you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust

Out in the garden where we planted the seeds

There is a tree as old as me

Branches were sewn by the color of green

Ground had arose and passed it's knees

By the cracks of the skin I climbed to the top

I climbed the tree to see the world

When the gusts came around to blow me down

I held on as tightly as you held onto me

I held on as tightly as you held onto me

'Cause, I built a home

For you

For me

Until it disappeared

From me

From you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust

Lotus story

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant or weak,

Return to yourself to who you are, here and now.

And when you get there, you will discover yourself,

Like a lotus flower in full bloom.

Even in a muddy pond.

Strong and beautiful.

- Masaru Emoto, The Secret Life of Water -

Change

Make every effort to change things you do not like. 

If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. 

You might find a new solution. 

- Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter -

Smile with Love

Let us always meet each other with smile, for smile is the beginning of love. 

 - Mother Teresa - 

Peace

To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. 

It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state
of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.

- Jill Bolte Taylor -

Pathway

Just because a path never existed,
doesn't mean that it isn't there.

- Lionel Suggs -

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

-  Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose -

Different in person

A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone.
It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. 

It doesn’t have to. 

It is different. 

And there’s room in the garden for every flower.

- Marianne Williamson -

Change

Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. 

It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day, with sweat and humility and slips. 

It is hard work, and slow work, but it can be thrilling to watch it takes shape.

- Sarah Hepola -

When your consciousness is totally focused on the moment, you can receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

-  Barbara de Angelis -

The earth has music for those who listen.

- William Shakespeare -

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
- Oswald Chambers -

Live your best life.

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They always say TIME changes things, but you actually have to CHANGE them yourself. 

- Andy Warhol -

On Being Influential

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
- Scott Adams -

If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders

Faraway from home

Why do you go away? 

So that you can come back. 

So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. 

And the people there see you differently, too. 

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. 

- Terry Pratchett, from "A Hat Full of Sky" -

Happiness

Beauty, Truth, Love

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.

For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

- Ivan Panin -

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. 

- Joseph Campbell -

Don't grieve. Everything you lose comes around in another form.

Living Life

Boldness

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -