Thank You for my sophisticated tongue which is able to feel chocolate symphony by my whole existence. When I think about chocolate I can create a joyful poem devoted to your smile.
Pleasure lives
Where Sugar is loved.
Chocolate orchestra plays
When soul is full…
I am a conductor of
This Symphony.
It seems we are going to spend our weekend in the legendary city of pleasure. Vienna as unthinkable without music as unimaginable without its famous desserts.
Franz Landtmann opened Vienna’s most elegant Café in 1873.
Landtmann Cafe is known for many meetings of leading industrialists and politicians in Austria, and the preferred coffee house of, such as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Peter Altenberg, Felix Salten, Emmerich Kálmán.
It is wonderful experience to listen and try conducting the symphony of desserts in Landtmann Cafe. I recommend.
And now, Ta Dam! Ta Dam! we are close to the culmination of Chocolate symphony: Zaher cake!
Sachertorte or Zaher (photo) cake is a specific type of chocolate cake, or torte, invented by Austrian Franz Sacher in 1832 for Prince Wenzel von Metternich in Vienna. The Prince have declared, “Let there be no shame on me tonight!” The torte created by Sacher have delighted Metternich’s guests, and the dessert received further attention.
I am reading the recipe as music scores for orchestra. Oh, I see the theme: chocolate, than crescendo Chocolate, than fortissimo CHOCOlate! I love that: “a layered chocolate cake filled with apricot jam is coated in Chocolate ganache and finished with a CHOCOlate glaze.”
Applauses and ovations to the orchestra and conductor are from grateful audience. Thank You for coming in my concert hall. I am grateful and happy to see you.
Thank You for Friday. Today is going to be your happy Friday because we will immerse in the city of pleasure. This is Vienna. I have been in Vienna and I must say this city is the hymn to pleasure and “the only city in the world which would have been unthinkable without music”.
Tram-pa-pa Tram-pa-pa, of course, we are feeling the rhythm and joyful motive of Waltz. And I am sure in 99% we are singing some melodies from Johann Strauss II masterpieces. Strauss wrote over 400 waltzes, one of them mirrors the mood of Vienna: “Wine, Women and Song”!
“Wine, Women and Song” is a hendiatris that endorses hedonistic lifestyles or behaviors. In modern times, it is usually seen in the form “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.” (Hendiatris is a figure of speech used for emphasis, in which three words are used to express one idea. (from wikipedia)
The Waltz King Johann Strauss II was born in Vienna, the son of Johann Strauss I, another composer of dance music. His father did not wish him to become a composer, but rather a banker. Nevertheless, Strauss Junior studied the violin secretly as a child. Vital force and Inspiration are stronger than parent’s will and, fortunately, we have a happy chance to listen and sing the wonderful and light motives from Johann Strauss the Son now.
Vienna’s centrally located Stadtpark features a prominent golden statue of Strauss playing the violin. Everywhere there is song and sound.
“It was the city of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert; of Brahms and Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg. From it had emanated the Strauss waltzes which flowed around the world, everywhere preaching the gospel of life’s enjoyment in three-quarter time,” Max Graf writes in “Legend of a Musical City”.
And, as in all fairy-tales, life there is easier, more brilliant and more exciting than anywhere else.
The waltzes Johann wrote for Vienna’s glittering balls, or for its charming cafes and gardens, made the waltz the world’s favorite dance, and made Vienna itself the most romantic of cities in the eyes and ears of the rest of the world. Vienna is the city of pleasure we are immersed now.
I do hope your today’s Friday is happy because the waltz’s motive in your head. My today’s Friday is happy because of the hymn of pleasure I am singing now. Thank You!
“Who does not Love Wine Wife & Song will be a Fool for his Lifelong!”
Hello God!
Thank You for the promising belief that we are on the right way and success is on. I love the Universe and my life. As the result of our love, successively, on the New Mood period I have caught the Seed from Universe’s Inspiration and now I am pregnant by success. What’s a miraculous sense of happy waiting!
Even my cactus believes and helps me.
I am a woman and I know what to be pregnant is. When I had received desired two stripes on the test I was on the seventh skye of happiness. “Nature keeps its job in the perfect way. My only task is to keep my mind and body in happy state”, I though. But, and I am sure every mother confirms it, it was not as easy as it sounded.
You know that “just waiting in natural way” is a hard job. Hormonal rebuilding makes tears and troubles like “Is my body comfortable enough for my baby?” or “Am I going to be a really good mother?”. Now I know what silly this fears and doubts were.
The same troubles I have now on my way to Success. My advantage is I know my doubts and fears are silly.
“Everything has a gestation period, a time period that must pass before things will come into form. If you plant a carrot seed, it takes about seven weeks for the sprout to make its above-dirt entrance. Bamboo, which can grow up to thirteen feet in as little as one week, takes up to seven years to break through the surface of the ground. But for seven long years it looks like absolutely nothing’s happening,” I am reading in “Harmonic Wealth” by James Arthur Ray.
I welcome my every tears because of crisis is a good stage. I am growing. I meet my fears with smiles because fears want to keep me in the safe place.
“Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer.” Rainer M. Rilke motivated.
I do not know what my success is about. Will is boy or girl born? Am I on the red carpet with Sharon Stone or playing the grand piano in Carnegie Hall? I do not know. At this very moment I have only belief in the vital force which leads me and my heart beats because of this force. What I am sure about is everything is possible. If I can imagine it I can archive it. My life is extraordinary because I am Masterpiece of God and I have no other choice to live my life.
Maslow said: ” If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
I know the time of birth of my Success is coming. I let you know, of course. I will be more than happy to inspire you by my life and my Success as I am inspired by yours now. I believe in you. Thank you for your belief in me. We are Success!
Thank You for a wonderful time we are spending our lives in. We live in fantastic time when we have a possibility to learn Renaissance, to walk in Florence and to share our impressions worldwide immediately. We are lucky to live now.
“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves,” Machiavelli wrote in “The Prince”. “It’s a handbook for gangsters.” Francis Bacon said about Machiavelli’s “The Prince”.
The Lion’s side of Machiavelli is well known. But what about fox’s side?
Fifteenth-century Florence was an exciting place to be. Renaissance is blooming and beauty is the ruler. Nicollo Machiavelli is a student of human nature, “a witty man and a very ordinary husband and father who enjoyed love affairs and filles de joie,” Miles Unger writes in “Machiavelli: A biography”.
O,la,la it seems we see a fox’s side in him!
Everyone knows Niccolo Machiavelli’s status as a great politician, but few are also aware that he was a first-rate playwright and satirist.
His play Mandragola (probably written around 1519) is one of the outstanding comedies of the Italian Renaissance stage.
The plot centers around a wealthy doctor of law, Nicia, and his beautiful wife Lucrezia. Callimaco, a young man, hears about Lucrezia’s beauty, and decides that he wants to become her lover. He learns of the couple’s inability to produce a child, so (with the help of his servant Ligurio), he disguises himself as a doctor and informs Nicia that he can produce a potion from the mandrake plant that, if taken by Lucrezia, will enable her to conceive. However, as Callimaco warns Nicia, the first man to have sexual intercourse with her will die from the effects of the potion. Luckily, Callimaco knows a man who will consent to have sex with her and bear the punishment of death. Nicia consents, and (along with Frate Timoteo) persuades Lucrezia to do the same. Callimaco disguises himself yet again, and is able to have his way with her.
The play is a brilliant comedy. It is also amazing to learn that it was performed successfully in 1520 before Pope Leo X in Rome. The fact that the play celebrated sex and seduction, and totally ridiculed the clergy as frauds, bothered him not at all. In fact, the Pope liked it so much that he asked Cardinal Giulio de Medici to award Machiavelli a commission as a writer.
For a good summer night I would like to recommend the movie “La mandragola” (1965) by Albertto Lattuada. The film quite deservedly was Oscar nominated for Costume Design but also deserved a nod for its excellent cinematography. You will enjoy it, I promise!
Thank You for creating this possibility to breath. I am breathing in and feeling magic scents of summer. Scent of jasmine flowers is the symphony of perfection! Under white bush of jasmine I close my eyes and I am breathing in its air by my whole lungs. I am dancing a beautiful waltz by this perfect rhythms of the universe. Happiness is full accepting by our every cells the Beauty of now.
My heart is singing to you poem Jasmin Flower by Alan Michael DeCara now.
A flower so appealing to the
senses and eyes.
Fragrance so sweet, beautiful,
upon the air it lies.
This Jasmine flower in
the palm of my hand
Brings me such joy that I cannot, in truth, understand.
I am reading Sonja Lyubomirsky’s book The How of Happiness. Sonja believes that our individual level of happiness springs from three primary sources: 1) A natural “Set Point” that you are born with (50%), 2) Life Circumstances (10%), and 3) Intentional Activity (40%).
Of these three, the one area that we have the most power to change is the last one: our behavior.
Happiness activities described as “evidence-based happiness-increasing strategies whose practice is supported by scientific research”:
1. Expressing Gratitude
2. Cultivating Optimism
3. Avoiding Overthinking and Social Comparison
4. Practicing Acts of Kindness
5. Nurturing Social Relationships
6. Developing Strategies for Coping
7. Learning to Forgive
8. Increasing Flow Experiences
9. Savoring Life’s Joys
10. Committing to Your Goals
11. Practicing Religion and Spirituality
12. Taking Care of Your Body: Meditation + Physical Activity + Acting Like a Happy Person
I am happy to share with you my today’s happiness activity and this moment when we are breathing in Air together and whirling in the dance of the Universe. Let’s remember the moment! Thank you for making my today.
Thank You for creating music we are able to listen. I love music by Johann Sebastian Bach. “Bach” is the German word for “brook”.
“Not Brook but Ocean should be his name” said Ludvig Van Beethoven.
I am lucky because I have had a possibility to be in Leipzig and walking to St. Thomas Church where Bach worked as a cantor from 1723 until his death in 1750.
I play the piano and the first piece I begin with my morning lesson is something from “Well Tempered Clavier”. Bach gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, dated 1722, composed “for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study.”
Bach makes my mornings. Every preludes and fugues are challenge for my fingers and enigma for brain and soul. I love to think that I am playing and listening the harmony of the universe.
“First, he was an intensely spiritual man. Second, he devoted his massive talent to the God he believed graced him with it,” Rick Marschall wrote in “Johann Sebastian Bach”.
“You want to discern a personality in my music?” we can perhaps hear him asking. “Listen closer and you will find one – the Lord Jesus Christ,” Rick said.
Below Johann Sebastian Bach’s 1722 seal, used throughout his Leipzig years. It contains the letters ‘J S B’ superimposed over their mirror image.
“In 1723, Bach was appointed Cantor of the Thomasschule at Thomaskirche in Leipzig, and Director of Music in the principal churches in the town, namely the Nikolaikirche and the Paulinerkirche, the church of the University of Leipzig. This was a prestigious post in the mercantile city in the Electorate of Saxony, which he held for 27 years until his death.”
His remains are buried under a bronze epitaph near the altar.
Another notable feature of the Thomaskirche is that it contains two organs. The older one is a Romantic organ by Wilhelm Sauer, built from 1885–89. Since this organ is considered “unsuitable” for Bach’s music, a second organ was built by Gerald Woehl’s organ building company from 1999–2000. This “Bach organ” was designed to look similar to the old organ on which Bach had played in the Paulinerkirche.
A statue of Johann Sebastian Bach by the Leipzig sculptor Carl Seffner that stands next to the church was dedicated in 1908.
I am reading in “Glory and Honor” by Gregory Wilbur: “Ultimately, Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all”, said German organist Helmunt Walcha.”
This words are true for me. Thank you for sharing this moment with me!
Thank You for creating us with the ability to rebuild and restore ourselves in any moment we choose.
A moment ago I was ruined and smitten by the quarrel with my husband. The reason, as usual, is egocentric and egodefending approach to each other. I was asking about soulmate’s warmness and kindness when the other side was not in the relevant mood to provide what was asking. The result is predictable conflict where we are both saying different words with the aim to damage each other’s egotemple. I am an emotional woman and the last words, unfortunately, were mine. I said that it is the guilt of my husband to remodel my person from “normal” to “pathetic creation with low self esteem”. I am not right, of course. I am saying: “I am sorry”, with eyes expressing as cat’s from “Shriek”.
I am smiling now. But before I took my dose of “emotional thunderstorm” with drama’s poems, music and crying. Oh, woman, woman! It seems we (women) need this “emotional thunderstorm” for restarting ourselves. I feel as good as phoenix bird arising from ashes. So I am a new phoenix now.
I am thinking how to rebuild my relationships with husband now. Today I have received a wise advices from Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: How To Create A Conscious Relationship: 7 Principles, 7 Practices.
7 Principles, 7 Practices were created because Kathlyn and Gay set some big intentions: “We wanted to get free of the old patterns that had plagued us in past relationships, such as criticism, blame and secret-keeping. We wanted to create a relationship that ran on positive energy instead of up-and-down fluctuations of negative and positive.”
The first principle: each partner commits to total union with the other person and total creative expression as an individual. And practice: you’re willing to go beyond all your ego-defenses to full unity, observe the emergence of your defensive barriers every day, communicate about them honestly, in fact, ego-defenses disappear quickly when you turn them into play.
The second principle: each partner learns from every relationship interaction,especially the stressful ones, instead of running programmed defensive moves. Some popular defensive moves: criticizing, lying, sulking in silence, making noisy uproars, numbing out with food, drink, smoke, TV and other habit-forming drugs. And practice: commitment to learning something new from every relationship interaction.
The third principle: a climate of absolute honesty, no hidden feelings or withheld truths. And practice: notice your feelings and thoughts, and speak about them to your partner.
The fourth principle: people keep their agreements impeccably. And practice: monitor each agreement you make very carefully, making sure you want to make it in the first place.
The fifth principle: a climate of 100 percent accountability, where nobody blames or claims victim status. And practice: claim responsibility for having created it the way it occurred, speak in empowered language.
The sixth principle: appreciate each other liberally. And practice: invent new ways to appreciate the other person every day, and speak appreciations frequently.
The seventh principle: everything can be resolved with willingness and love. And practice: Love as much as you can from wherever you are.
Thank you, Kathlyn and Gay for sharing your wisdom with young phoenix birds. We are new now and we will go by suggested principles and practices to be a total and beautiful union. I know it takes decades but we have enough time together. I wish our way is as bright and sparkling as on the picture below.
I am happy to write to You “Thank You”. We are living because of You. We are living happily because of Your Inspiration. Your Inspiration is our dreams and imagination. So we are floating in our spaceship in the Universe between stars and comets. Our navigation is perfect. The next station we are going to jump in is “Summer”. Summer station is wonderful. We are leaving Spring station with our hearts full of gratitude and joy. Thank You for our spaceship named “Our Happy Life”.
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death,” said Robert Fulghum.
I would like to share the poem which touches my soul. The poem was written 200 years before my birth and poet’s vibrations lift up my spirit and inspire my mind now!
“On imagination” (1773)
Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?
Soaring through air to find the bright abode,
Th’empyreal palace of the thund’ring God,
We on thy pinions can surpass the wind,
And leave the rolling universe behind,
From star to star the mental optics rove,
Measure the skies, and range the realms above,
There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
Or with new worlds amaze th’unbounded soul.
We have to keep a clear vision of life due to imagination is developing by its influence. We need always to control brightness and sharpness of our perception. Children know what this process means. Let’s remember how to do it.
“ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:
1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don’t hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
7. Say you’re SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life – learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Stryrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup – they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first workd you learned – the biggest word of all – LOOK.”
These wise advices are from the book “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things” by Robert Fulghum.
I am going to follow by Robert’s wisdom to make my vision clear. I invite you in my company and together we will enjoy Summer station very soon. We are going to ground on it.
Welcome to our spaceship (the picture below is from kindergarten)!
Thank You for today. I have met a miracle today. On my way to swimming pool a young wild rose bush welcomes my eyes. I have accepted its invitation to spend some happy moments with it. It is young and beautiful. It embraces whole Universe and I was the part of It. I was immersed in the pulsating field of energy of the bush and I feel wonderful tune of unison of our vibrations – mine and its.
“Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence,” Lynne McTaggart writes in her book “The Field”.
Our morning’s moment supports this opinion. Lynne has attracted my attention and I will try to share the thoughts from this book with you in the nearest time.
For a now I have found a very beautiful poem, my heart likes it very much. So I do hope your heart will be pleased too.
A Wild Rose
A blushing wild pink rose,
By tangled woods and ways,
A passing sweet that goes
With summer days.
From rosy dawn till night
Wafted from east to west,
Kissed by the morning light
To evening rest.
Thy odors faint outlive
Alike both joy and pain,
Stealing the sweet they give
To yield again.
Leaving a faint perfume
Thy memory to fulfill,
Forgotten in thy bloom,
Remembered still.
And the picture of today is impossible without music. Please enjoy “To a Wild Rose” by Edward MacDowell
I would like to share the photo of today’s hero.
We are the Winners of Green Card Due to We are Perfect Life!
We are the Winners of Green Card Due to We are Pure Love!
We are the Winners of Green Card Due to We are Pure Luck!
Thank You very much for our nights, after my tender lullaby our sweet daughter falls asleep and I have this wonderful possibility to read, write and share my thoughts with you. Tonight I am reading “The Courage to Create” by Rollo May. The book is brilliant. I have a real pleasure to share with you the thoughts I like from this book.
“This courage will not be the opposite of despair… Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.” I like this definition of courage as the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
“But if you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also you will have betrayed our community in failing to makeyour contribution to the whole.” We all are the Masterpieces created by the Highest Inspiration. We have to have courage to create, we have no other choice to realize ourselves.
“A chief characteristic of this courage is that it requires a centeredness within our own being, without which we would feel ourselves to be a vacuum. The “emptiness” within corresponds to an apathy without; and apathy adds up, in the long run, to cowardice. That is why we must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic,” Rollo May writes about commitment. So again we have to be courageous to manifest our uniqueness by our creative works. Our life by itself is a creative work, we need just to confirm this fact by the commitment to be creative.
“Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.” What’s the wise words!
Courage to be is essential.”The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning “heart.” Thus just as one’s heart, by pumping blood toone’s arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues.Without courage other valúes wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue,” Rolly May said.
“In human beings courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible. An assertion of the self, a commitment, is essential if the self is to have any reality. This is the distinction between human beings and the rest of nature. The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical increatures like tbem. But a man of women becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day today. These decisions require courage. This is why Paul Tillich speaks of courage as ontological—it is essential to our being.”
“Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We can not know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be. Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us? The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected.”
“The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality. We human beings know that we must die. We have, strangely enough, a word for death. We know thateach of us must develop the courage to confront death. Yet we also must rebel and struggle against it. Creativity comes from this struggle—out of the rebellion the creative act is born. Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one’s death.”
“Whatever sphere we may be in, there is a profound joy in the realization that we are helping to form the structure of the new world. This is creative courage, however minor or fortuitous our creations maybe. We can then say, with Joyce, Welcome, O life! We go for the millionth time to forge in the smithy of our souls the uncreated conscience of the race.”
“Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.”
You know despite mostly of this post is “copy-and-past” I am writing it with Flower Duet from Lakmé by Léo Delibes and this process is making my post is the creative work. I have chosen the quotes sounding in unison with my mind’s vibrations, and by reading its we together have created an unique creative art now for this very second.
As Rollo May writes: “…in our appreciation of the created work — let us say a Mozart quintet — we also are performing a creative art. When we engage a painting, which we have to do especially with modern art if we are authentically to see it, we are experiencing some new moment of sensibility. Some new vision is triggered in us by our contact with the painting; something unique is born in us. This is why appreciation of the music or painting or other works of the creative person is also a creative act on our part.”
I am more than happy now in my hope that you are enjoying Flower Duet with reading my post and something unique is born in both of us.
We are the Winners of Green Card Due to We are Perfect Life!
We are the Winners of Green Card Due to We are Pure Love!
We are the Winners of Green Card Due to We are Pure Luck!
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