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    How To Start   The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  “There is a secret place.  A radiant sanctuary. As real as your own kitchen.  More real than that. Constructed of the purest elements.  Overflowing with the ten thousand beautiful things. Worlds within worlds.  Forests, rivers. Velvet coverlets thrown over featherbeds, fountains bubbling beneath a canopy of stars. Bountiful forests, universal libraries. A wine cellar offering an intoxication so sweet you will never be sober again. A clarity so complete you will never again forget. This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway… Believe the incredible truth that the Beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all of creation.”                            ...

    Hoe Begin Ek?  Die Gesprek  Elemente Uit Die Gesprek  “There is a secret place.  A radiant sanctuary. As real as your own kitchen.  More real than that. Constructed of the purest elements.  Overflowing with the ten thousand beautiful things. Worlds within worlds.  Forests, rivers. Velvet coverlets thrown over featherbeds, fountains bubbling beneath a canopy of stars. Bountiful forests, universal libraries. A wine cellar offering an intoxication so sweet you will never be sober again. A clarity so complete you will never again forget. This magnificent refuge is inside you. Enter. Shatter the darkness that shrouds the doorway… Believe the incredible truth that the Beloved has chosen for his dwelling place the core of your own being because that is the single most beautiful place in all of creation.”                                    ...

  Rest Amidst A Busy Life   The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation  Music In die movie Shawshank Redemption , Andy (Tim Robbins) comes across a record with opera music in a box of donations to the prison library. Among the tracks on the record is also the Duettino Sull'aria (the letter duet) from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro . In an act of defiance, he locks all the doors of the library and plays the aria over the central loudspeaker system. As if under a spell, all the prisoners stop whatever they are doing, and stare at the large loudspeakers overhead. Thinking back on this experience, Red (Morgan Freeman) says: “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther t...

  Rus In 'n Besige Lewe Die Gesprek Elemente Uit Die Gesprek  Musiek In die rolprent Shawshank Redemption  kom Andy (Tim Robbins) in een van die skenkings aan die gevangenis se biblioteek, op 'n grammofoonplaat met operamusiek af. Daarop is onder andere hierdie  Duettino Sull'aria (die briefduet) uit Mozart se Die Huwelik van Figaro . In 'n gebaar van opstand, sluit hy al die deure van die biblioteek, en speel die musiek oor die luidsprekerstelsel van die gevangenis. Asof betowerd, staak al die gevangenes waarmee hulle besig is en staar na die groot oorhoofse luidsprekers. Van hierdie ervaring sê Red (Morgan Freeman): “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in ...