Έχουμε τόσο συνηθίσει, στον παραλογισμό της ύπαρξης… (Γιούκιο Μισίμα)

Έχουμε τόσο συνηθίσει, στον παραλογισμό της ύπαρξης ούτως ώστε η απώλεια ενός σύμπαντος δεν είναι κάτι που αξίζει να λαμβάνεται σοβαρά υπόψη.
Γιούκιο Μισίμα, (天人五衰 – Tennin Gosui) Εκπεσών Άγγελος (Αγγλική μετάφραση του αποφθέγματος)

 

Γιούκιο Μισίμα, Εκπεσών Άγγελος

 

 

We are too accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously

We are too accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously.
Yukio Mishima, The Decay of the Angel (天人五衰 – Tennin Gosui)

Greek translation of this phrase

Frank Sinatra – What is this thing called love (video and lyrics)

Frank Sinatra – What is this thing called love (video and lyrics)

Aργά, η αγάπη, τρυπώνει λαβώνει σαν σπαθί… (Σαβίνα Γιαννάτου, Νίκος Κυπουργός)

Aργά, η αγάπη
τρυπώνει λαβώνει σαν σπαθί
γοργά κυλάει στο βλέμμα στο αίμα στο φιλί

Tι κι αν σε κάστρο απάτητο ο άνθρωπος το νου διπλά κλειδώνει
με βήμα αλαφροπάτητο η αγάπη του, σαν άνοιξη ζυγώνει

Aργά, η αγάπη
τρυπώνει λαβώνει σαν σπαθί
γοργά κυλάει στο βλέμμα στο αίμα στο φιλί

Tι κι αν φορείς πουκάμισο
που ως το λαιμό, που ως το λαιμό κουμπώνει
απ’ τα κουμπάκια ανάμεσα
ο έρωτας, ο έρωτας τρυπώνει..

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. You should be happy right in the here and now.

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. You should be happy right in the here and now. There is no way to enlightenment. Enlightenment should be right here and right now. The moment when you come back to yourself, mind and body together, fully present, fully alive, that is already enlightenment. You are no longer a sleepwalker. You are no longer in a dream. You are fully alive. You are awake. Enlightenment is there.
Life Is Now Or Never, a segment from a Dharma talk on August 26th, 2007, by Thich Nhat Hanh

Ravel: Piano concerto G major – 2nd movement Adagio assai

From minute 4 onwards the melody unfolds in a most beautiful way and the cadenzas at minute 5 are sheer magic.

Ενός λεπτού σιγή για τους απεγνωσμένους…

Ντίνος Χριστιανόπουλος, Ενός λεπτού σιγή

Εσείς που βρήκατε τον άνθρωπό σας
κι έχετε ένα χέρι να σας σφίγγει τρυφερά,
έναν ώμο ν’ ακουμπάτε την πίκρα σας,
ένα κορμί να υπερασπίζει την έξαψή σας,

κοκκινίσατε άραγε για την τόση ευτυχία σας,
έστω και μια φορά;
είπατε να κρατήσετε ενός λεπτού σιγή
για τους απεγνωσμένους;

Από τη συλλογή Ανυπεράσπιστος καημός (1960)

Madeleine Peyroux – Instead (lyrics and video clip)

Instead of feeling bad
Be glad you got somewhere to go
Instead of feeling sad
Be happy you’re not all alone
Instead of feeling low
Get high on everything you love
Instead of wastin’ time
Feel good ’bout what you are dreaming of

Instead of trying to win something you never understood
Just play the game you know eventually you will you both look good

It’s silly to pretend to have something you don’t own
Just let her be a woman and you’ll be her man

Instead of feelin’ broke
Buck up and get yourself in the black
Instead of losing hope
Touch up the things that feel out of whack
Instead of being old
Be young because you know you are
Instead of feeling cold
Let sunshine into your heart

Instead of acting crazy chasing things that make you mad
Keep your heart ahead, it’ll lead you back to what you have
With every step you are closer to the place you need to be
It’s up to you to let her love you sweetly

Instead of acting crazy chasing things that make you mad
Just keep your heart ahead, it’ll lead you back to what you have
With every step you are closer to the place you need to be
But it’s up to you to let her love you sweetly

Instead of feeling bad
Be glad you got someone to love
Instead of feeling sad
Be happy there’s a god above
Instead of feeling ‘lone
Remember you are never on your own
Instead of feeling sad
Be happy that she’s there at home
She’s waitin’ for by the phone
So be glad she all your own

Get happy…
Watin’ for you by the telephone…

Don’t get…

Pink Floyd – Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (lyrics and video clip)

Little by little the night turns around
Counting the leaves which tremble at dawn
Novices lean on each other in yearning
Under the leaves the swallow is resting
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
Over the mountain watching the watcher
Breaking the darkness waking the grapevine
One inch of love is one inch of shadow
Love is the shadow that ripen’s the wine
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
Witness the man who raves at the wall
Making the shape of his question to heaven
Whether the sun will fall in the evening
Will he remember the lesson of giving
Set the controls for the heart of the sun
The heart of the sun
The heart of the sun

This Mortal Coil, Another day (lyrics and video clip)

The kettles on, the sun has gone, another day
She offers me, tibetan tea, on a flower tray
Shes at the door, shes wants to score, she really needs to say:
i once loved you a long time ago, you know
Where the winds own forget-me-nots blow, you know
But I couldnt let myself go
Not knowing what on earth there was to know
But I wish that I had, cause it makes me so sad
That I never had one of your children.
Across the room, inside a tomb, a chance is waxed and waned
The night is young, why are we so hung-up, in each others chains
I must take her, I must make her, while the dove domains
See the juice run as she flies
Run my wings under her sighs
As the flames of eternity rise
To lick us with the first born lash of dawn
Oh really my dear, I cant see what we fear
With ourselves, sat here between us
And at the door, we cant say more, than just another day
Without a sound, I turn around, and I walk away