... after daybreak is when I will already have died. At that moment I will only know of beautiful things: the certainties, the desires. When the sun bathes me, I will be something else: without mirrors, without sadness. I will have passed away, but will have been reborn. I will whistle mellifluous melodies. Discredited but, in the end, light. Ondjaki
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There is an old Indian story that goes like this: “One day, the king of India was walking along a road. He was very sad because his daughter had just died. Suddenly, he heard music coming from the bushes at the side of the road. Slowly, he moved into the shadows of the trees to see what was happening.

He saw a woman sitting on a rock playing a flute to accompany her singing. As she played, she told him how she had been living in a hermitage deep in the forest. Hermitages were places to go when you wanted to be alone and, as she played, she told the king about her life there, about her love for flowers and trees, animals and birds.

With each note, she sang about how much she missed her daughter and how glad she was that she had died so that they could meet again. The king was deeply moved by what he heard and he told the woman that he loved her. As they walked along together, they fell in love with each other.

A few days later, they returned to their palace where they lived happily ever after .”

Source: The Whistler

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