The Echoes of Our Hearts

[Edwin]

You are right, mystic, about hunger, or maybe will call it appetite. I took nutrition class a little over a year ago that taught me many things. One of those things is that hunger is a physical reaction in which your body sends you a signal that tells you that you need to eat. That happens in at least two ways. One is your blood glucose level. When your blood glucose level is low, you feel that you need to eat, and you are truly hungry, and you do need to eat. Another physical reaction is that your stomach becomes empty, and your stomach sends signals to your brain, just like the blood glucose level, and it tells you that you need to eat, and truly you do need to eat!

Appetite, according to their definition is not a physical reaction, but it is a mental psychological state in which you see food, smell food, or have other sensations that make you think you are hungry, but you are not truly hungry, and if you eat very often based on that motivation you will get sick, diabetes, or others sicknesses, and maybe you will get obese. So eat if you are hungry; your body needs that food, but learn to tell yourself no, if you merely have an appetite, and you are really not hungry, and you really don't need to eat, and if you do violate that principle very many times it will affect your health.

You are right mystic, love is not uncontrolable; you do have control over it. Some who seek illicit love, say it is uncontrolable, but that is not true, and if you go after illicit love, it will make your soul and maybe your body sick. Let love find you and do it correctly! Love does need to be cultivated to make it grow. It also needs chocolate candies, flowers, and perfumes!!!!

[mystic]

"perfumes" Quote by Ed.

I wonder about this statement. In Italy, if you would give a perfume to a girl, 99.99% she would throw it to your head. If she is really polite, she will say thank you, but not open the gift's parcel, and reuse it to give it as gift to somebody.
Here girls are very picky about the smell of the perfume. There is no way a man can find their right preference, unless they ask her before. So, no girl would put a perfume that is different from the way they feel themselves. Also, it is often see as a bad thing, because putting a perfume would be like declaring that the man owns the woman (take it from the animal world: they use smells to mark their territory).

So it was making me wonder if a Filipina instead would accept "any" perfume as gift, and if she will really like such a gift.

Ah, but in Italy, instead of perfumes, they have another saying: "A diamond is the best friend of a woman"

[Edwin]

When I was in my twenties I heard that in France the ladie put on perfume instead of showering or bathing. I really don't know about that myself. Also I have heard that in that part of the world heavy perfume use is associated with prostitution. But I have read here on this site, and you could probably find it if you look back in some of the old posts that filipinas love perfume, and they love to get perfumes as gifts especially from an admirer. I am not doubting your take on perfumes from your country, but I have the impression that it is not like that in the Philippines. Maybe Italian women are like American women in that they are weird in some ways!

[mystic]

That's very true today too, Ed. French people, especially, do not like to touch water. So they just put perfume. Second are people from England. But there they use less perfume. They just don't touch water. It was normal for UK people in the past to take a bath one time in a year. And they did not even change the water, the whole family was using the same water Now I think there was some improvements, but.... strange thing happen.
I remember that, as I was a student and used to be a guest in houses in the UK, they saved water even to wash dishes. They did not actually wash them... they just left the soap on them and cleaned it away with a fabric. Of course, every time you ate in a dish, the food had the taste of liquid soap

[Edwin]

Yes, mystic, sometimes I imagine that I taste liquid soap, and it is a little repulsive! Carol swears she renses them good, and I know she does. For the last 4 years until last April we did not have running water in the house. I hauled it in a wagon from 600 feet away from our house, so we did some water recycling. Dish water went in the toilet tanks, 2 toilets, flushing, but we carried water to them, and we are still carrying water to them from the kitchen sink where we do have running water now!! I dumped my shaving water in the toilet tank as well. When I rensed out milk jugs to use for carrying and storing our water, I dumped that in the toilet tanks as well. I dumped some water with eatable food oil in the tanks as well, and it greased them up, but that toilet went outside as a back up, now that I am renewing my bathroom. At first I was taking showers in our travel trailer, sitting jugs of water in the hot sun to warm. Then I was sitting them in front of the glass door of our pellet fire stove to warm, then I started just boiling water and mixing to warm, and that worked well. Now we have a very small electric water heater under the sink, and I run one jug of water as hot as it will come, which feels very good in the shower, but not too hot, then I shave, run another jug after the heater as gotten warm again, then I pick out my clean clothing, and I run the 3rd jug of water, so I take a 3 gallon shower! I pour a little water on my head, soap it up good with an ivory bar of soap, then soap under my arms good, then soap between my legs; sorry for the graphics!! Then I use the rest of that gallon to rense the soap off my head, I then rub my legs to losen any dirt clinging, and it does especially from walking my doggies those 6.5 miles, then I use the 2nd gallon to rense under my arms, and the rest of my body off with the soap, after that I just use the 3rd gallon of water to make sure the soap is all off and to make me feel good, and believe you me, it does make me feel good! Now you know more about that than you wanted to, huh?!!!!

[crisipicada]

You know, life is full of mystery. Sometimes, you are inlove, sometimes, you feel sad, sometimes you are happy, it is full of mix emotion. Someone who will be with you whatever you feel or in situation in life, is the one who truly loves you. Did you find that person already?

[Edwin]

Many years ago I bought some equipment for my beekeeping, and the guy was a Christian. He told me that there were no guarantees in life except if you know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior you have eternal life, and that is a guarantee that you can count on. Jesus will always be there!

[mystic]

Ummmmmm.... I don't know in the Filipino language this makes sense. I know in English it makes no sense. In Italian, each word is either male or female. There are no neutral words.

So, being single I should say that I indeed have a mate that never leaves me. Her name is "solitude" (in Italian, it's a female word). Since we are born alone, I could say that my historical mate is back with me and never truly left me.

But instead, I have begun to learn that I have many mates. Like in the biblic times they used to marry many wives, well... I have "music" (another female name), meditation, happiness, calmness, and maybe a few others. I don't stay all the time with all of them together, so somehow they make my day varied. Wow, what a crowded life I have

And in all this, I still have time to think and dream of my promised who, I guess, will be my favorite

[mystic]

I'll add a thought that I found today in the book titled "Enlightening the Eyes" by the mystic Isaac of Acre.

He points out to Exodus 25:30: "Before Me always". He holds that the table should not be naked from bread for even one moment. So, there are complete pious and righteous ones whose souls do not remain naked even for an hour according to God’s wish.

This is similar to what should happen in a couple. One should always be there for the other - i.e. the table should never be naked (void).

[red]

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That's very true today too, Ed. French people, especially, do not like to touch water. So they just put perfume. Second are people from England. But there they use less perfume. They just don't touch water. It was normal for UK people in the past to take a bath one time in a year. And they did not even change the water, the whole family was using the same water Now I think there was some improvements, but.... strange thing happen.
I remember that, as I was a student and used to be a guest in houses in the UK, they saved water even to wash dishes. They did not actually wash them... they just left the soap on them and cleaned it away with a fabric. Of course, every time you ate in a dish, the food had the taste of liquid soap

Ewww gross....