Not only do you summarize one of Chaplin's movies - City Lights (and I do believe the flower girl was blind) - but you manage to weave in Chaplin's life story and why 'The Tramp' was created in the first place.
He came from nothing and became such an icon, all while showing the world that you did not have to lose your humanity in the process.
Thanks for joining me in celebrating Charlie Chaplin's 136th birthday with your tribute!
Yes, I agree. Fascist/autocratic/theocratic states in Russia and the USA will force Europe and Canada into a partnership that may benefit the world. May they be the light going forward.
Very well said, Sue. I agree with life is satisfying once we stop focusing on other's happiness and instead of focusing on ourselves. It was a difficult lesson but one that changed my life.
Be entirely self-determined and
ruled from within,
not from without.
Merely giving up a thing to secure a
better one is not true relinquishment.
Give it up because you see it is valueless. As you keep on giving up,
you will find that you grow spontaneously in intelligence and power and inexhaustible love and joy.
Desires and fears are not natural.
They are entirely mind-made.
You have to give up everything to know
that you need nothing, not even your body.
Your needs are unreal and your efforts are meaningless. You imagine that your possessions protect you.
In reality they make you vulnerable.
Realize yourself as away from all that can be pointed at as "this" or "that." You are unreachable by any sensory experience or verbal construction.
Turn away from them.
Refuse to impersonate.
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