A beautiful

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• A beautiful
• reflection
• by
• Facundo Cabral

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You are not depressed, you are distracted
Distracted by the life that controls you, ...
Distracted by the life around you, Dolfins,
forests, seas, mountains, rívers.
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• Do not fall into my brothers trap he is
  agonizing for one person... when in the world
  there are five thousand six hundred million. For
  the rest, it is not so bad to live alone.
• I am enjoying myself, deciding at every moment
  what I want to do, and, thanks to this solitude,
  I know myself...
• Something truly fundamental for life

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• Dont fall into the trap of your father, who
  thinks he is old because he has seventy years of
  age, forgetting that Moses directed the Exodus at
  eighty and Rubinstein used to interpret Chopin
  like no one else when he was ninety, to quote
  just two well-known cases.

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• You are not depressed, you are distracted. That
  is why you think you lost something, but that is
  impossible, because all you have was given to
  you. You did not make a single hair of your head,
  therefore you own nothing. Besides, life does
  not take anything from you it frees you from
  things... It makes you lighter so you can fly
  higher, and reach your fullness. From the cradle
  to the tomb it is all a school that is why, what
  you call problems, are only lessons. You did not
  lose anyone The one who died, simply went ahead
  of us, because there is where we all go. And, the
  best of that person, love, continues alive in
  your heart.

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• There is no death... only change. And at the
  other side you have wonderful people waiting for
  you Gandhi, Michel Angelo, Whitman, Saint
  Augustin, Mother Teresa, your granfather and my
  mother, who believed that poverty was closer to
  love, because money distracts us with too many
  things and it makes us distant, by taking away
  our trust.

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• Do only what you love and you will be happy.
  Whoever does what he loves is happily condemned
  to success, which will arrive in its good time
  because what must be will be, and will arrive
  naturally. Do nothing out of obligation or
  compromise, only out of love. Then you will have
  fullness, and in this fullness all is possible
  and without effort, because it is the natural
  force of life that moves you the force that
  raised me when the plane fell with my wife and
  daughter in it that kept me alive when the
  doctors diagnosed for me three or four months of
  life, at most.

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• God put you in charge of a human being, and that
  is yourself. You have to make yourself free and
  happy. Then you will be able to share a better
  life with others. Remember Love your
  neighbor like yourself". Find reconciliation with
  yourself, look at the mirror and think that this
  creature you are seeing is Gods work and
  decide, right now, to be happy, because happiness
  is an acquisition.

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Moreover, happiness is not a right, but a duty
because if you are not happy, you are making the
whole neighborhood unhappy. One man alone who
did not have talent nor courage to live, ordered
the death of millions of jewish brothers.
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• There are so many things to enjoy and our
  sojourn on earth is so short, that suffering is a
  waste of time. To enjoy ourselves we have the
  snow of Winter and the flowers of Spring, Belgian
  chocolate, French baguetes, Mexican tacos,
  Chilean wine, the seas and the rivers, Brazilian
  soccer, The Thousand and one Nights, the Divine
  Comedy, the Quijote, Pedro Páramo, the boleros of
  Manzanero and the poetry of Whitman the music of
  Mahler, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven the paintings
  of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Picasso and
  Tamayo, among so many other marvels.

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• And if you have cancer or AIDS, two things can
  happen and both are good if it wins, it will
  free you from this body that can be so
  uncomfortable (I am hungry, cold, sleepy, I have
  desires, I am right, I doubt)... And if you win,
  you will be more humble, more grateful for it,
  easier to make happy, free from the awful weight
  of guilt, responsability and pride, ready to
  live each and every instant in all its depth, as
  it should be.

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• You are not depressed you are unoccupied
• Help the child that needs you, that child that
  will be your sons associate. Help the old and
  the young will help you when you will be one.
• Besides, service is sure happiness, like
  enjoying nature and taking care of it for those
  who will come after. Give without measure and
  you will be given without measure as well. Love
  until you become like what you love more still,
  until you are transformed into love itself.
• And do not let yourself be brought to
  confusion by a few homicides or suicides..

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• Goodness is the greater part, but it is not
  appreciated because it is silent. A bomb makes
  more noise than a caress, but for every bomb that
  destroys, there are millions of caresses that
  feed life. Its worth, isnt it?. If God had a
  refrigerator, your picture would be in it. If God
  had a wallet, your picture would be in it too.
  God sends you flowers every Spring. God gives you
  a dawn every morning. Every time you want to
  talk, God listens God can live in any part of
  the Universe, but chose your heart. Welcome the
  presence, my friend, God is crazy for you!

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• Send this to every beautiful person you want
  blessed. God did not promise days without pain,
  laughter without sadness, sun without rain God
  simply promised strength for each day,
  consolation for the tears, and light for the
  journey.

When life will give you a thousand reasons to
cry, show it that you have one thousand and one
reasons to smile