The lost letter in "Ubi Caritas"

Today I would like to tell a story to the dear reader of a programmatic song called "Ubi Caritas"
(Where there is charity).

Once upon a time something dramatic happened to this song: 'Cause after weeks of work on the lyrics, one night, the night before the writer of the lyrics wanted to carry the finished lyrics to the printing shop, he actually died.

Sadly, a wind blew through the open window that night, too, and the lyrics got blown to the slightly dirty floor.

Luckily enough, the writer had told his friend about the finished lyrics before and so the paper was found and finally published.

And you could say, in those days, it became kind of a hit.

However, because the original paper was blown to the dirty floor, a letter was covered by some dirt making it look as if the letter was being crossed out.

The letter that got "crossed out" was an "s" actually.

Because of this, the true meaning of the song got actually lost: The lyrics as they were published were:


"Ubi caritas et amor, ubi caritas, deus ibi est."
Thats Latin and it actually means:
"Where there is charity and love,
where there is charity, there is god."

Not bad but actually not as devine as the original meaning:

"Ubi caritas est amor, ubi caritas, deus ibi est."
The translation of this is:
"Where there is charity, there is love,
where there is charity, there is god."

And this means that...
where there is charity, there is god
and...
love is god (and god is love).

Do you realize the difference? Pretty powerful the difference, huh?

Well, normally fairy tales have a happy end. This one obviously doesn't. But I do hope that one day, the lost "s" is rediscovered.

But until that day, let's keep ourselves aware that
god is love because god shows charity.

Million Dollar Baby

The "Million Dollar Baby" depended her life on the cheers of the audience and thought that she was meant.
But she didnt know that the audience cheered another boxer the next evening and a year later nobody thought about her anymore.

Nobody loved her and she was loved by nobody. Somebody read her some literature. But he didnt teach her love cause he didnt know love himself.When she was laying down handicaped in her hospital bed she thought that she was dead. But in fact it was the only time when she had the chance to become alive. But she didnt know and nobody told her.

There she had the chance to forget about the physical and awake her mind. Instead she killed her body and thereby killed her mind, too.

She was full of self-pity and fear that people would forget about her. And she was right. 'Cause the qualities that she had gained in the gym were exchangable.

She never discovered the human inside herself. And her trainer neither. She never discovered the love inside herself. Neither did her trainer.

She never realized that there was a flower growing in the sun and never let her thoughts strive in the clouds of the Himalaya. She never saw a child dying in Africa and never smiled at the soul of her clients in the restaurant.She defined her happiness by the physical qualities that she had gained in the gym.

She never discovered the beauty within her physical body.

And never realized that some people smiled at her soul. Mother Theresa was in the restaurant more than once and she didn't realize.

The "Million Dollar Baby" had a dream to become someone famous and when she had almost succeeded she had an accident and had to realize that she could not HAVE her dream fullfilled anymore.

So she decided to die cause she couldn't HAVE anymore, she would just be able to BE.

But she wasn't satisfied with just BEING.

She didnt love herself enough for just BEING,
she thought that without HAVING, life was not worth living.

All you do

All you do is not too much,
because you need not do it.

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People often help out other people and...

* think they're doing a good deed.
* think the other one would need their help.

However... noone... not your brother, not your sister, not your father nor your mother is indispensable. Not your teacher, not your boss, not your wife... and especially you yourself are not indispensable.

People are stronger than you think they are...
and that includes you yourself.