BAND OF HORSES: "Infinite Arms"

Two arms to lean into, trustworthy as boulders near the shoreline. Two arms that lift you up in the air, gracefully, that let you overlook the beauty of the world in three hundred and sixty and more degrees. Two arms to hold you, warm your back and press you in his chest. Two arms to make you feel like a princess, and anyone else you thought you never were. A couple of arms, arms a couple. Two, yet one. Good things come in pairs.

DELUGE: "Open Up The Sky"

Alta alatis patent.

"The sky is open for those who have wings."

MIDLAKE: "Acts Of Man"

"In daily life we see people around who are happier than we are, people who are less happy. Some may be doing praiseworthy things and others causing problems. Whatever may be our usual attitude toward such people and their actions, if we can be pleased with others who are happier than ourselves, compassionate toward those who are unhappy, joyful with those doing praiseworthy things, and remain undisturbed by the errors of others, our minds will be very tranquil.”

(Yoga Sutra of Patanjali 1.33)

KEITH URBAN:l "My Heart Is Open"

It was an unsuspicious day, when you were still liquid and I tried to grab you. You held my look, and I became a hostage of my own dreams. Something died, like an unknown soldier who perished on the battlefield and left no name, for he had none. We remember the fallen, without ever having known them. We identify ourselves with what they represent, not with who they really were. I look at you, and see myself through the peephole of your open heart.

FEIST:"Past In Present"

Born in ancient times, alive today, yoga is eternal yet exists only in the present.

(author unknown)

BOB SCHNEIDER: "Gold In The Sunset"

Yangon (Myanmar)

FRANK SINATRA: "Night And Day"

Life smiles at me, and I smile back, as if it were a big-eyed girl in a white-lucent skirt in the glistering sun. I open unopened doors and step into new days with the flair of a catwalk model. My raft’s afloat, peacefully on a gently meandering river towards greater oceans. Happiness comes like a tan, effortlessly, by the mere exposure to natural elements. The sun is my ruler, the moon is my accomplice. They take turns in silent understanding, with the regularity of night and day, and neither of them gets exhausted. Learn from the elements, and you will be in your element.

王菲 : 紅豆 (FAYE WONG: "Red Bean")

相思

紅豆生南國，
春來發幾枝。
勸君多採擷，
此物最相思。


Yearning

In southern lands the red bean tree grows.
It sprouts when the vernal breeze blows.
Pick the red beans with your hands filled.
Your yearning for love will be fulfilled.

(王維 - Wang Wei, 699-761 AD, China)

WANG CHUNG: "Dance Hall Days"

The streets are a deserted dance hall, reminiscing the previous night. All guests have disappeared and noise has turned to silence. The concrete breathes the morning chill. A sparrow hops cautiously, seemingly unbelieving that the coast is clear again. The night holds expectations; the morning brims with revelations. There’s silence after the storm, and sunshine before the rain. Her heels click in a steady pace. The coffee is hot, too hot still. She’s cool. Time goes fast, but she walks faster.

A suit-dressed man walks past her in the opposite direction. A breeze of fragrance enters her nostrils, and instantly it all comes back to her. That’s the smell. His smell. The same perfume that mesmerised her from the very first time she inhaled it. There he is, vividly, she feels his touch, his strong arms, a cheeky laugh etched in a half-open mouth. Her eyes blink franticly behind the dark-coloured sunglasses. The present is a memory of a distant future. She turns her neck, yet knows that the back disappearing behind the corner is not the one she used to kiss with half-closed eyes. She walks faster, but her heart beats fastest.

LUZ CASAL: "Mar Y Cielo"

Labuan (Malaysia)