Love will find its way through all languages on its own. Say whom I am...Say I am you...

"There are many people with their eyes open whose hearts are shut. What do they see? Matter. But someone whose love is alert, even if the eyes go to sleep, he or she will be waking up thousands of others." The Rumi Journal
Rumi's poem elegantly and without fail touches our inner being and inspires us to go beyond our limitations towards the Divine.

"I am dust particles in sunlight,
I am the round sun.
To the bits of dust I say, Stay.
To the sun, Keep moving.
I am morning mist,and the breathing of evening.
I am wind in the top of a grove,and surf on the cliff.
Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on.
I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.
Silence, thought, and voice.
The musical air coming through a flute,a spark of stone, a flickeringin metal. Both candle,and the moth crazy around it.
Rose, and the nightingalelost in the fragrance.
I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,and the falling away. What is,and what isn't. You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all, say who I am.
Say I am You." Rumi







Picture: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273)

SEROTONIN RISING 2010 • Deepak Chopra, David Lynch & Donovan

"The idea for the film SEROTONIN RISING came to me in the year 2000. I was watching a PBS TV special and the narrator read a few lines from a medical study. He said that if you do a good deed for someone your serotonin levels will rise and your immune system will be strengthened. He went on to say that the same thing happens to the recipient of the good deed. The final words on this subject were what really hooked me: Any observer of the good deed will also feel their serotonin rise and have their immune system strengthened. I wrote down a treatment for a future documentary based on those words and filed it for when the time felt right to produce it. A few years later, I came across a study conducted at the National Institutes of Health by Dr. Jordan Grafman . The research proved that the same regions of the brain that were activated when one received money were even more activated when one gave money to non-profit organizations.After reviewing my notes from the PBS special and conducting more research on the topic, I was convinced that people would respond favorably to these findings. I set about contacting Dr. Grafman and other medical experts to confirm the NIH experiments. At the same time, I began interviewing more doctors as well as noted authors, spiritualists, visionaries, religious leaders, mind-body specialists and philosophers. Everyone agreed with the basic premise and many added their own views and advice to the subject. Within six months word spread within the spiritual cinema community about what we were doing and I began to receive calls and e-mails from people wanting to be a part of this production. SEROTONIN RISING took on a life of its own soon after co-producer and writer, Darren Foster , joined me on the production and journey. Darren suggested that we add a dramatic storyline about two television news reporters to the interviews we already conducted. We developed a concept for this unique integration together and Darren wrote the original screenplay. Soon we began acquiring an incredibly talented cast and crew to produce this very unique feature-film.By merging the scientific evidence with a dramatic story and the words of wisdom from our experts, SEROTONIN RISING blossomed into a very special film.When my very talented brother Russell Perri agreed to create some amazing music for our film, we knew we were on the right track. As we watched the interview clips and reviewed stories of altruism and compassion, we all felt something wonderful. It soon dawned on us that we were becoming the "observers" of good deeds and our own serotonin levels were dramatically rising.It was at this point that we decided people needed to see this film and that it could make a positive difference in our world. We are now convinced that this documentary is the World's First Truly 'Feel-Good' Movie."
Tony Perri
Director and Co-Producer

http://www.serotoninrising.com/project/about.aspx






Photo: Reverend Friendly and Wilbur rest on Pearl Street Mall during set-up.
http://www.serotoninrising.com/film/photoPearl.aspx

Legend of Beggar Vance - The Woods

The film is about a young man who went to war and lost his ‘authentic swing’ his soul.

...'Now play the game.
one that only you was meant to play.
The one given to you when you was born.' ...


‘You gonna be wanting a different club, Junuh?
I can't do this.
Just loose your grip up a smidge.
- A man's grip is like a... - That's not what I'm talking about.
- I know. - No, you don't.
What I'm talking about is a game...
...a game that can't be won...
...only played. - You don't understand.
I don't need to understand.
Ain't a soul who ain't got a burden to carry he don't understand.
You ain't alone in that.
But you've been carrying this one long enough.
Time to go on, lay it down.
I don't know how.
You got a choice.
You can stop...
...or you could start. - Start?
- Walking. - Where?
Back to where you've been and then stand there.
Still.
Real still, and remember.
- It was too long ago. - No, sir, it was just a moment ago.
Time to come on out the shadows, Junuh.
Time for you to choose.
- I can't. - You can.
You ain't alone.
I'm right here with you.
I've been here all along.
Now play the game.
one that only you was meant to play.
The one given to you when you was born.
You ready?
Come on, take your stance.
Strike that ball, Junuh. Don't hold nothing back.
Now's the time.
Let yourself remember.
Remember your swing.
That's right, Junuh. Settle yourself, that's good.
Now is the time, Junuh.
Let's go, Hardy.
Hey, Bagger.
- You are one hell of a caddy. - I do the best with what I got.’

From the script of Legend of Beggar Vance - The Woods scene.

War of course, could be used symbolically and substituted with any internal and external battle one may encounter in life, which could lead to loosing one’s ‘authentic swing’.

Jacqueline Du Pre

'The English cellist Jacqueline du Pre was one of the most stunningly gifted musicians of our time. Tall, blonde and ebullient, du Pre would wrap herself around her cello and play with an intimacy and intensity that transported her audiences. She was a musical lioness, ferocious and playful, uninhibited and passionate.'

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/news/May1999/BookReviewsduPre.html

'Jacqueline du Pré is arguably the greatest talent to ever play the cello. She combined mind, heart, body and soul to produce the most expressive tones ever to emanate from the instrument. Shy and at the same time bold, she was not only expressive, but played with precision, fullness and purity of tone.
She could not pinpoint the time when she started losing feeling in her fingers, and her arms, as she said, felt like lead. By the fall of 1973 she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She continued to teach on occasion, but the deterioration of her health gained momentum and finally, on October 19, 1987, she died at the age of forty-two.'

http://www.jacquelinedupre.net/jdupre/whoisjdp.htm




Sorry for the poor quality ending of the clip, but it was the only suitable I could find.

I filed this posting under inspirational segment. You might wonder what is inspirational about it? Well, the inspiration could be found from several different angles. You find the one, which sounds true to you.

One of the angles could be that MS could affect almost anyone…

All individuals I worked with whose lives were affected by MS were talented and inspirational human beings in some way or another. Some managed to stand out from the crowd before diagnosis and some had talents and inspirations that are still to be recognised by themselves and by the people around them.

When we work with individuals using Petö’s exemplary ideas, concepts and practice we must remember his teaching, which clearly defines that we must have the highest respect for everyone we work with whether they are babies or grownups. Regardless of creed, age, colour, talent, social background, diagnosis or any identified criteria previously given and imposed upon them.


A poem which was recited by Paul H. one of our participants in the Multiple Sclerosis Group.

There is a young boy within us
which we would exclude from the pitiless
surfaces of the mirrors which life would hold up to us

'Grow up' which is what time would say to us.
The brow furrows, the mouth sets, the eyes which were made
for the reflection of first love have a hole in the centre
through which we may look down into the abyss of meaning,

and yet there is the crying within of the young boy who has fallen
and will not pick himself up knowing there is nobody to run to.

No Excuses.

What is your excuse today?






Matt Scott.






How will you change your thoughts and words today?

Would you?
Could you?
When?

Walking for Peace.

"One person spending
all of their time working for peace
makes the news.
Many people spending
some of their time working for peace
can make history"
Peace Pilgrim




Peace Pilgrim talked about peace among nations, peace among groups, peace with our environment, peace among individuals and the very important inner peace.
She believed in human potential, and that most people only scratch the surface of their potentials.