Speak Softly Love 柔声倾诉 – by Andy Williams

What can stop you love, when you make yourself in the sun? What can deter you when you make yourself pure?

No words are needed, let this familiar, soft and beautiful song once again purifies our hearts…

“Speak Softly Love”

Lyrics by Larry Kusik, Music by Nino Rosa

Speak softly, love
And hold me warm against your heart
I feel your words
The tender trembling moments start
We’re in a world, our very own
Sharing a love that only few have ever known

Wine-colored days warmed by the sun
Deep velvet nights when we are one

Speak softly, love
So no one hears us but the sky
The vows of love
We make will live until we die
My life is yours and all because
You came into my world with love so softly love

Wine-colored days warmed by the sun
Deep velvet nights when we are one

Speak softly, love
So no one hears us but the sky
The vows of love we make will live until we die
My life is yours and all because
You came into my world with love so softly love
velvelt rose

Chinese Tranlsation

“柔声倾诉” 词:Larry Kusik, 曲: Nino Rosa

柔声倾诉吧,我的爱
将我抱在你温暖的胸怀
在你轻柔颤抖的刹那
我感受到你要说的话
我们拥有个体,却享有同一份爱
我们的世界只有少数人了解

阳光充满酒样绚烂的白日
合而为一享受那紫罗兰般夜晚

柔声倾诉吧,我的爱
没有他人只有上苍可以听见
我们爱的誓言将持续
直到我们不在人世
我的生命属于你
尽因你带着如此柔情的爱进入我的世界

阳光充满酒样绚烂的白日
合而为一享受那紫罗兰般夜晚

柔声倾诉吧,我的爱
没有他人只有上苍可以听见
我们爱的誓言将持续
直到我们不在人世
我的生命属于你
尽因你带着如此柔情的爱进入我的世界

Posted by Helen Zhu, copyright@learnwithuniversalmind.com

一样的月光 the Same Moonlight – by Su Rui

Is this nostalgia or a reflection?

“Since when have playmates been far apart?
Since when have the surrounding people become unfamiliar?
Moving crowds add distance between us
The lonely earth is weeping in silence in a quiet night”.
“Since when have the sounds of frogs and cicadas been a memory?
When did the hometown become so crowded?
High Rises are everywhere.

“Who can tell me, Who can tell me –
If it is we who have changed the world
Or the world that has changed you and me?”

This is a song written in the early eighties by a Taiwan song writer Luo Dayou, used as the theme song in the film – Got on the Wrong Bus 搭错车. Although it was written some thirty years ago, the meaning that the words convey lasts and invoking.

I just recently went back to my hometown – Beijing. Having seen my family and friends, it was a joyful experience. But somehow I also got a feeling of being lost when I was going out by myself – many places and streets I was familiar I couldn’t find anymore, those big department stores, new and old, in just a couple of years’ time became completely new, and when I went in those stores, to my surprise, it looked like I was walking in a store in New York – all the vendors were selling some international brands, having their store names written in English on their windows, and the whole interiors of departments, buildings were built like five-star hotels – the floors are shinny and hard. I couldn’t find what I wanted to buy, so just left. When sitting in a taxi, passed in front of eyes only a few familiar places that looked so humble pressed between those high rises of fancy-designs while the filthy air was flowing in through the slit of side window.
beijing-highrise
What did we human do to our places? what did we do to ourselves? Maybe the cry out from this song can make us awake!

The Lyrics of the Song

一样的月光 – 苏芮    词:吴念真/罗大佑  曲:李寿全

一样的月光
什么时候儿时玩伴都离我远去
什么时候身旁的人已不再熟悉
人潮的拥挤拉开了我们的距离
沉寂的大地在静静的夜晚默默地哭泣

谁能告诉我
谁能告诉我
是我们改变了世界
还是世界改变了我和你
一样的月光
一样的照着新店溪
一样的冬天
一样的下着冰冷的雨
一样的尘埃
一样的在风中堆积
一样的笑容
一样的泪水
一样的日子
一样的我和你

什么时候蛙鸣蝉声都成了记忆
什么时候家乡变得如此的拥挤
高楼大厦到处耸立
七彩霓虹把夜空染得如此的俗气
谁能告诉我
谁能告诉我
是我们改变了世界
还是世界改变了我和你

The English Translation

The same moonlight
Since when have playmates been far apart?
Since when have the people surround me become unfamiliar?
Moving crowds add distance between us
The lonely earth is weeping in silence in a quiet night
Who can tell me, Who can tell me –
If it is we who have changed the world
Or the world that has changed you and me?

The same moonlight
Shine on the same Xidian Creek,
Same in the winter, same cold rain is coming down
The same dusts pile up
Same in the wind
The same smile, the same tears
The same life, the same you and me.

Since when have the sounds of frogs and cicadas been a memory?
When did the hometown become so crowded?
High Rises are everywhere,
No taste is the night made by glaring lights
Who can tell me, Who can tell me –
If it is we who have changed the world
Or the world that has changed you and me?

Note: 苏芮Su Rui, a well-known singing star from Taiwan, her powerful voice wins fans all over the Asian mandarin speaking world and lasts for decades from the eighties. A lot of singer stars after her started by imitating her songs.This Song is one of them. SuRui is one of my favourit singers in the Mandarin music stage.
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Posted by Helen Zhu   copyright@learnwithuniversalmind.com

South Africa – A Land for Healing

South Africa is known for its biodiversity – it houses 10% world plant species and 7% wild animal species. Now more and more people believe that animals and plants bear spirits, and are more connected to the nature, to the source creation. Perhaps because of this vast connection, I found it, in my recent trip to South Africa, a place for healing.

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–   the Vibration of Primitive Beauty of Animals    

The masculine strength of a male kudu with spiral-up horns contrasted his yellow-ribbon back and neck hair; a quiet giraffe peacefully grazing on a tree and a flock of vauture setting on trees surround lion’s kills waiting for their turn.

I held tightly the dream of seeing my beloved animal – lions in the wild, then in the first day of safari, God presented in front of me a pride of lions with 3 lionesses and 2 cubs feasting on a five-buffalo kill, and in the following one and half days I also saw 2 patrol-returned male lions and 3 young nomads. Watching them feast on their kills with content, the belly-up youngsters snoring in the shade, a collective hunting scene arises in my vision… How beautiful the nature brings us, just live as it is.

– Bathed in the Vibrational Beauty of Wildlife,  People Are More at Ease, More Aware of Their Inner-World
The well-known culturally-diversed Metropolitan city, Cape Town presents its welcome with a mixture of natural scenery and friendly people at ease, not like some other bustling international cities such as  New York, Beijing, with too much noise and the aggression of selling to tourists.  To my surprise, in the waterfront market, a famous tourist market, the first eye-catching vendor is called Wisdom to Nourish that sells healing music and books, and vendors selling natural stones for healing. And those vendors also carry a chakra chart to assist customers in choosing their products. And in the shuttle to Kruger, among the 7 other passengers, a seventy-something year old local lady started chat with me, our topics could smooth from culture to inner connections. People there work for animals, talk about animals. People who are working in the lion sanctuary where I volunteered eat in a same kitchen and sitting room, sleep in simple rooms, living a simple but happy life.

– Two Great Souls in the 20th Century Were Nurtured on This Beautiful Land, Isn’t it a Divine Meaning?

Just after I finished my South African trip including a visit to Robben Island, Nelson Mandela passed away from this physical relam. People from the whole world paid tribute to him. Is that only because he was a hero/symbol to end the long ruled Apartheid in South Africa? Absolutely not, it is his full radiant qualities of integrity, generosity and forgiveness that enabled him to bring together people of diverse backgrounds to hold up a rare form of democracy. And this also makes me think of another great soul, Mahatma Gandhi, who spent 21 years of his early life in South Africa to fight against another Apartheid, under the British colonial system, and who also inspired Mandela for his course to freedom and democracy. Both men demonstrated the qualities of integrity, generosity and forgiveness under sophisticated historic social circumstances. And these qualities had been nourished by the deep understanding of human equality, dignity and the desire for respect. Great men passed, left are their spirits to inspire.                                                      Capture

At the new era of human consciousness expansion, how much more reconciliation and healing can be done, it all depends on us!  Hope there are more handshakes in front and behind the screen…, more communication…, more understanding…

I’ll always want to go back to South Africa – a land for healing

 

Love and Peace! and God Bless!

 

Posted by Helen Zhu    Copyright@learnwithuniversalmind.com

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