Je suis tombee dernierement sur ce texte du Dalai Lama. Il m'a porte a reflechir. Je le trouve desarmant de verite, derangeant meme a la limite. En fait, il exprime en mot ce qui me trottait dans la tete depuis un moment.
The Paradox of our Age
We have bigger house, but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgment;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness.
We have been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbour.
We built more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies than ever;
but have less communication.
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods,
but slow digestion.
Tall man but short character.
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It is a time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room.
We have bigger house, but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgment;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness.
We have been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbour.
We built more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies than ever;
but have less communication.
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods,
but slow digestion.
Tall man but short character.
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It is a time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room.
His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama
Le bonheur peut etre partout et nulle part a la fois si on ne s'arrete pas pour en prendre conscience. Le bonheur pour moi, c'est dejeuner sur le toit de mon hotel avec mes voisines de chambre. C'est d'etre persuadee avoir trouve l'endroit ou l'on preparait les meilleurs Bhagsu Cakes. C'est quand mes cheveux sentent bons, ou que je me creme les pieds.A chaque fois ou l'occasion se presente, je ferme mes yeux et prends deux secondes pour me dire: "Le bonheur est ici et maintenant - Happiness is right here, right now." Et, a force de l'entendre plusieurs fois par jour, je realise a quel point je suis priviligiee.
Quand j'ecoute la chanson que j'a choisi cette semaine, je ressens exactement ce que je me souhaitais quand nous avons leve notre verre sur le coup de minuit le 31 decembre dernier.
Pour Marc, Valery, Julien, Rija, Karine, Marie-Pierre, enjoy...
(Il s'agissait de la chanson "Beautiful Day" de U2.)
Pour Marc, Valery, Julien, Rija, Karine, Marie-Pierre, enjoy...
(Il s'agissait de la chanson "Beautiful Day" de U2.)
"What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now..."
Je vais prendre un break de blog pour trois semaines, le temps que mon projet secret se concretise. Je garde le suspense... A bientot !
