I liked him so much. Not only was he so cleanly good looking, appealing and pleasing to the eye but his eyes tell more than what the eye can meet. Gazing deep into his eyes one cannot miss such sincerity of the heart. And getting deeper into his countenance, you would feel his loyalty and love which no kind and level of chaos and difficulty could destroy.
Legolas talks of purity. The purity that I share right now. Eden no malice please! It is the purity of innocence, a gift from Heaven! Such innocent love, innocent emotions, innocent feeling. It is such purity, purity of motive, purity of heart, purity of will, purity of spirit.
This also means, first time. The many first time of growing meaningful relationships and friendships.
... unfinished!
Saturday, March 15, 2003
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Hero: A Story with So Much Brain and Heart
I went on to watch again the type of the film that I sacredly value so much so that it requires me to watch in the sacredness of my aloneness. This is the kind of film that pulls me to not only digest its content but keep the sacredness of its meaning in my journey in this life with God. This adds now to the types of classic that truly captures my heart. Yes, like my other favorites:
The Braveheart
Schindler’s List
The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
The Crouching Tiger
The Touch
The Road Home
Dangerous Beauty
Jude the Obscure
The Prince of Egypt
Movies like these would really require me not just to watch them many times but if possible to watch them in the sacredness of my very own self. Being with my alone self, gives me more space to reflect and listen more and maybe, cry more with all my heart!
“Hero” showed me the way of God. That in each one of us lies such longing to see and live beyond the anger and chaos of the world around us. This sense of transcendence is a path so difficult and elusive in this lifetime that many lives need to be ‘wasted’ in the process of pursuing it, to the point of loosing ones own life.
The entire goal and process of pursuing such pure heart points directly to the existence of God. Only God can grant us such higher longing, desiring and calling. In the movie, it was shown both in the arts of swordmanship and calligraphy. These disciplines together with music point to a common principle that once uncovered leads to the purest sense of living and loving. It is a choice of life upon death, a real heroism amidst a crime.
If I was struck by the reality of God and man’s response to Him in “The Touch”, the “Hero” points me blatantly to man’s hunger for meaning, for God and His peace, shown in his response and the necessity to transcend beyond the ordinariness of his own weakness, failure and sinfulness.
These realizations unabashedly brought me to tears and a deep touchdown to my senses and present longings in life. There is something more, I know, somewhere within me that needs expressing. Such deep hunger for more meaning and life than what I assume to have. Such deep desires and longing for more -beyond what I see, feel, know and experience. Such deep intimacy and love for life and its meaning.
The story was so powerful that martial arts, swordmanship, calligraphy and music were simply the conduits ushering to that sacred end, that which is ultimate! All these, cloaked inside the weaving saga of wit, valor, honor and love!
“A healthy life is not living with the regrets of the past or the worries of the future but living with the present moment – wisely and passionately.” ~Buddha
The Braveheart
Schindler’s List
The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
The Crouching Tiger
The Touch
The Road Home
Dangerous Beauty
Jude the Obscure
The Prince of Egypt
Movies like these would really require me not just to watch them many times but if possible to watch them in the sacredness of my very own self. Being with my alone self, gives me more space to reflect and listen more and maybe, cry more with all my heart!
“Hero” showed me the way of God. That in each one of us lies such longing to see and live beyond the anger and chaos of the world around us. This sense of transcendence is a path so difficult and elusive in this lifetime that many lives need to be ‘wasted’ in the process of pursuing it, to the point of loosing ones own life.
The entire goal and process of pursuing such pure heart points directly to the existence of God. Only God can grant us such higher longing, desiring and calling. In the movie, it was shown both in the arts of swordmanship and calligraphy. These disciplines together with music point to a common principle that once uncovered leads to the purest sense of living and loving. It is a choice of life upon death, a real heroism amidst a crime.
If I was struck by the reality of God and man’s response to Him in “The Touch”, the “Hero” points me blatantly to man’s hunger for meaning, for God and His peace, shown in his response and the necessity to transcend beyond the ordinariness of his own weakness, failure and sinfulness.
These realizations unabashedly brought me to tears and a deep touchdown to my senses and present longings in life. There is something more, I know, somewhere within me that needs expressing. Such deep hunger for more meaning and life than what I assume to have. Such deep desires and longing for more -beyond what I see, feel, know and experience. Such deep intimacy and love for life and its meaning.
The story was so powerful that martial arts, swordmanship, calligraphy and music were simply the conduits ushering to that sacred end, that which is ultimate! All these, cloaked inside the weaving saga of wit, valor, honor and love!
“A healthy life is not living with the regrets of the past or the worries of the future but living with the present moment – wisely and passionately.” ~Buddha
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