From " Stelle con le Radici" Ed. Tau
DREAM
In your dream you can fly, you
can climb trees, you take part as if it were the real thing. In your
nightmare you are afraid, you perspire, you are breathless and
then, after turning into a princess and meeting a dragon, you wake up
and everything is peaceful. The dragons have disappeared and you are no
longer a princess. You would like everything that you had dreamt to be
real but when you think about it, if everybody knew how to fly and if
everybody were a king the world of fantasy would vanish into thin air.
(Cinzia Costrini)
Rome, June 1997
LISTEN
TO THE SILENCE
Listen to the silence. Do not speak.
In the silence
we discover the world and all the things that we have never known.
Do not hurry. Do not run. It does not help us to understand. Do not
disturb those who listen to the silence. Do not put obstacles in
their path. Respect their desire for reflection, for understanding,
their desire to find their way. Do not ask questions, do not judge,
do not feel superior. Accept that the river must follow its course
to the sea. Accept the changing of the seasons. Enjoy the spring and
enjoy the winter. Each one has something to give us, has something
to teach us: we only need to
appreciate it. But we have
to learn how to appreciate it,
how to open our souls to the world
and accept what it has
to offer, with serenity. Never forget that we have the right
to live! Everyone of us has the right to live! Listen to the
silence! In the quiet and in the uproar of life – we must listen to
our inner selves.
Wherever it leads us, whatever the outcome, it
has a value.
Rome, October 1999
THE
PRINCE OF THE STARS
Two months had now passed and the
Prince was about to leave the castle. The spell had already worn
off and the Sacred Fire was no longer burning. As night
fell, he spurred his white horse towards the East where lived
the Great Cat from him he would learn the secret rite of
rekindling the flame.
After riding through the desert for some
time
he wanted to give his exhausted horse a rest so he stopped near
a grove of palm trees. While he was preparing his bed for the
night an aged hermit approached who greeted him with humility
and respect saying: “Welcome, O solitary Prince of the Stars, my
simple dwelling is yours: I beg you to accept my food and
drink and to listen with me to the voice of the stars”. The
Prince gladly accepted and after he had refreshed himself, he
was so tired in body and soul that he fell into a deep sleep. He
woke up shortly before dawn and went to look for the
hermit to thank him and bid him farewell, but there was no trace
of him. Disconsolate, he sat down on a tree trunk and without
realising found himself gazing up at the sky, where thousands of
stars were shining brightly. In that moment, his spirit came
back to life and his heart began to beat strongly. Once
again the
Sacred Fire was burning in his soul.
He had met
the Great Cat.
Rome, February 1992
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DESIRE
In the world there exists all the things that we
desire. Those which we long for the most are those which are the
most difficult to grasp but our happiness is measured through
their existence. It
is just as true that we often cannot recognise
those feats which are impossible and our
determination to pursue them at all costs creates in us a sense
of rage and pointless feelings of frustration. However, it is
through desire that man puts himself to the test by trying to
reach those goals which he considers essential to his very
being; it is the source of all worthwhile commitment, of
knowledge. It is the driving force of the emotions…….of rational
thought…… of life itself.
Rome, June
2001
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