Dear The Lighthouse Readers,
This second week of February, our 24th Edition together, has been very special, with many hearts in my mind, and much music festivals to celebrate, id est The 66th Edition of the Grammy Awards, the Sanremo Italian Music Festival and the Super Bowl LVIII!
Listen, Enjoy, Share!
Big Hugs,
Your Gaia – from the Lighthouse
On the Spotlight… Music!
Watch the Super Bowl LVIII Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers Half-time show performance of Usher – R&B takes the main stage
Watch all the best commercials of the Super Bowl 12 February 2024 on this link
My fav commercials
Twist on it – Oreo
Whatever you forget, Uber Eats gets anything
Change is coming, YESS!!!! Reese’s
On my mind
Throwback at my singing promising career : Claudio Baglioni – Cuore di Aliante
Question of the day: better to be rightly informed or to bask in lies? Listen
Angelina Mango- La noia, Winner of Sanremo Italian Music Festival 2024
Flowers – Myley Cyrus Record of the Year Grammy Awards 2024
Tyla – Best African Music Performance of the Year, with the record Water
Spotted! New very well-curated new songs, by Kacey Musgraves – Deeper Well & Beth Gibbons – Floating on a moment
Worth-reading:
Great Vietnamese Buddhist teacher and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, continues to enrich, ennoble, & empower with his teachings well into his nineties.
The articles below stem from the website Marginalian.org
- How to transform fear into love
- True Love and the five Rivers of Knowledge
- Deep Listening – understanding and loving are inseparable
- what makes a good communicator
United Nations Priorities for 2024
UN Secretary – General Remarks to the General Assembly on UN Priorities for 2024, read here Peace is our raison d’être
Special Love day
Loving each day – Ronan Keating
Tell it to your heart – Meduza
shared by a friend Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack
Pills of wisdom
- Hone/Smooth and Sharpen your Hope in language (repeat a mantra & clear your mind, to the very essence of your heart). This transforms your Hope into an actionable and practical element;
- A mantra simply clarifies, concentrates, and consecrates intent, and all meaningful transformation springs from purposeful, devoted intent.
- look inside yourself. The ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself, which in turn depends on your degree of self-understanding.
- Your wholehearted presence is a miracle
- according to Buddha, for true love there is no place for pride
- five rivers: the body (“which we do not know well enough,” he rues); sensations (“Each sensation is a drop of water in the river,” he writes, and meditation is the practice of sitting on the banks of the river, observing the passing sensations); perceptions (“You must look deeply into their nature in order to understand.”); mental formations, of which Buddhism identifies fifty-two — feeling-states and faculties like happiness, hate, worry, distraction, appreciation, and faith; and consciousness, the last and deepest of the five rivers
- The intention of deep listening and loving speech is to restore communication, because once communication is restored, everything is possible, including peace and reconciliation
May this week be filled with deep inner joy, and the willingness and the possibility to make a real transformation in your life!
always, with Hope & a Smile!
Yours,
Gaia
The Lighthouse 