Dance, like no one's watching

Hi and Happy Chinese New Year to all of YOU out there!
I will be conducting a two-day wokshop entitled

Sacred Space Creation in APRIL 2008,

welcome and let's share and learn and play together!
In this festive season, I would like to share a meaningful article

sent by one of my friend:

We convince ourselves that life will be better once we are married, have a baby, then another.
Then we get frustrated because our children are not old enough, and that all will be well when they are older.

Then we are frustrated because they reach adolescence and we must deal with them. Surely we’ll be happier when they grow out of the teen years.

We tell ourselves our life will be better when our spouse gets his/her act together, when we have a nicer car, when we can take a vacation, when we finally retire.

The truth is that there is no better time to be happy than right now.
If not, then when?

Your life will always be full of challenges. It is better to admit as much and to decide to be happy in spite of it all.

For the longest time, it seemed that life was about to start. Real life.
But there was always some obstacle along the way, an ordeal to get through, some work to be finished, some time to be given, a bill to be paid. Then life would start.

I finally came to understand that those obstacles were life.
That point of view helped me see that there isn’t any road to happiness.
Happiness IS the road.
So, enjoy every moment.

Stop waiting for school to end, for a return to school, to lose ten pounds, to gain ten pounds, for work to begin, to get married, for Friday evening, for Sunday morning, waiting for a new car, for your mortgage to be paid off, for spring, for summer, for fall, for winter, for the first or the fifteenth of the month, for your song to be played on the radio, to die, to be reborn… before deciding to be happy.

Happiness is a voyage, not a destination.
There is no better time to be happy than… NOW!
"Live and enjoy the moment. "

(Author unknown)

其實我覺得人生就是這樣，充滿著未知數：每一日的生活，都有不同的挑戰。我覺得，每一次的挑戰，不論結果如何、所遇到的挑戰有多麼的大，在挑戰的期間，你也會有所得著。我們每一時刻，所做的都是令我們的人生經驗更加豐富，我們每一次都有所得著與學會的知識，這些就只有在我們日常生活中實踐學會，並沒有一張佈滿問題的考卷，給你去完成，這些都不可以利用分數來計算的。人生如沒有挑戰困難的話，會如何呢？沒有挑戰與難關，我想你也鍛煉不到忍耐吧，也沒有上進心，令我們的生活變得更加充實。每一刻，你都可以用樂觀來看，儘管你在困境中，但世界上給你更加多困難的人可能有很多，我們覺得樂觀的應是我們現在承受的，還是我們能夠控制與解決的，每一刻，是康莊大道還是崎嶇不平的山路，都令我們生活更加快樂充實，令我們學會更多的人生道理。

Now, think and try to answer these questions:
1 – Name the 5 richest people in the world.
2 – Name the last 5 Miss Universe winners.
3 – Name the last 10 Nobel Prize winners.
4 – Name the last 10 winners of the Best Actor Oscar.
Can’t do it? Rather difficult, isn’t it?
Don’t worry, nobody remembers that.

Applause dies away!
Trophies gather dust!
Winners are soon forgotten.

Now answer these questions:
1 – Name 3 teachers who contributed to your education.
2 – Name 3 friends who helped you in your hour of need.
3 – Think of a few people who made you feel special.
4 – Name 5 people that you like to spend time with.
More manageable? It’s easier, isn’t it?

The people who mean something to your life are not rated “the best”, don’t have the most money, haven’t won the greatest prizes…
They are the ones who care about you, take care of you, those who, no matter what, stay close by.
Think about it for a moment.
Life is very short!

And you, in which list are you? Don’t know?
Let me give you a hand.
You are not among the most “famous”, but among those to whom I remember to send this message…

Some time ago, at the Seattle Olympics, nine athletes, all mentally or physically challenged, were standing on the start line for the 100 m race.
The gun fired and the race began. Not everyone was running, but everyone wanted to participate and win.
They ran in threes, a boy tripped and fell, did a few somersaults and started crying.
The other eight heard him crying.
They slowed down and looked behind them.
They stopped and came back… All of them…

A girl with Down’s Syndrome sat down next to him, hugged him and asked, “Feeling better now?”Then, all nine walked shoulder to shoulder to the finish line.
The whole crowd stood up and applauded. And the applause lasted a very long time…
People who witnessed this still talk about it.
Why?
Because deep down inside us, we all know that the most important thing in life is much more than winning for ourselves.
The most important thing in this life is to help others to win. Even if that means slowing down and changing our own race.

If you spread this message, perhaps we will succeed in changing our heart, perhaps someone else’s heart, as well…

A candle loses nothing if it is used to light another one!

名譽與勝利就好像煙花那樣，一直的吸引著我們，可惜這些就只有外觀上的華麗，真正的美與實在就不見得有這麼多了；這些外觀的，都只是可以只有短暫的光輝，消失了就是消失了，給別人都只是那一刻的享受，對比之下並沒有給人長遠的印象，都只是一些容易給人忘記的東西吧。不如實在一些，會令人心有感動吧- 換來造福別人，令人真心的感動!