Hariprasad Chaurasia - Sounds of Silence

In my past there is a Krishna.
In my dreams I dream of recreating a huge college of flautists, a veritable Vrindaban in which students will arrive to learn and study with satchels full of flutes, live in mud huts, eat at a common langar.

A modern Vrindaban from which a thousand flutes will ring out everyday. For what else is there?

When my breath is gone and I cannot play anymore what do I leave behind?

Some dedicated students! When you leave nothing behind, you cry at the point of death, but I still dream, I dare to dream that through my playing and through my students my flute will be left behind as the memory of Krishna.

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia

The heart is like a garden.
It can grow compassion or fear,
resentment or love.
What seeds will you plant there?

If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Be the One you long for.
Kabir

Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.
Aulus Persius Flaccus

OCEAN of TRUTH

Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.
Lao Tzu

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Navajo proverb

Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
Heinrich Heine

Alas! the world is full of enormous lights and mysteries, and man shuts them from himself with one small hand!
Baal Shem Tov

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Rumi

"Just living is not enough" said the butterfly fairy,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Hans Christian Andersen

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Anna Pavlova - Hiding in a Bouquet of Flowers

Only Record of Anna Pavlova's Voice

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.
Ruth St. Denis

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran

It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

a white blossom - D.H. Lawrence

A tiny moon as white and small as a single jasmine flower
Leans all alone above my window, on night's wintry bower,
Liquid as lime-tree blossom, soft as brilliant water or rain
She shines, the one white love of my youth, which all sin cannot stain.

Love will make the beloved more and more free, love will give wings and love will open the vast sky. It cannot become a prison and enclosure. But the quality of love comes only when there is awarenes.

“Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.”
― Rumi

Earth laughs in flowers.