Plot Summary for
Sweet November (2001)

"He grew up poor, an only child whose parents are dead,"

Sara Deever
"Sara really knows what she wants out of life
and how to live it to the fullest,
and she has made it a priority to share that knowledge with other people".
"She's not scared to get close and intimate with strangers."
 

There's still a part of Nelson that is alive and Sara recognizes that,
She tells him that he's miserable.
And Nelson says, 'No, I'm not miserable.
I'm successful.'
But once he slows down,
he realizes that he is miserable.

(Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take

but by the moments that take your breath away)

(Love is not loving a perfect person but loving an imperfect person to perfection)


She has an irresistible heart,
and she knows that anyone as driven and motivated
as Nelson isn't simply running toward something;
he's also running from something.
Part of her process is that she doesn't spell everything out for Nelson,
She wants to open the door and eventually let him continue
the journey himself.
She said; 'Slow down and just be present and look around, look at life!'
Being nurtured by her spirit wakes him up to what is important.

 

Sara's eyes,

as Nelson does

and

through Nelson's eyes,

as Sarah does.

 

 

WHERE EVER YOU ARE

by Celeste Prince

Time has come, what's done is done
It's time to move on
To another place, another space, maybe circling some other sun
Don't ask why, don't ask how
I still can't explain
To say goodbye,

goodbye for now till I see you again

In the sunlight that's where I'll be
In the moon night close your eyes, you will see me
In the sunrise in the twilight I'll be the morning and the evening star
I will be there with you wherever you are

Life is strange, such joy and pain
The betrayal and the kiss
It may be meant to be, maybe destiny
Leads us down a path like this
Child is born, true love is sworn
All the in-between

Well you walk on, walk on until the path is gone
Learning love is the only everything

In the sunlight that's where I'll be
In the moon night close your eyes, you will see me
In the sunrise, in the twilight: I'll be the morning and the evening star

I will be there with you wherever you are

So it's goodnight, things go wrong
but it's alright
We're all just passin' through here
At the speed of light

In the sunlight that's where I'll be
In the moon night close your eyes, you will see me
In the sunrise, in the twilight: I'll be the morning and the evening star
I will be there with you wherever you are

1. PEACE - A TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF ACCEPTANCE OF ALL OF LIFE'S BRUTAL AND BEAUTY FILLED MOMENTS. MAY PEACE REIGN IN OUR HEARTS AND MAY WE RADIATE THAT OUT TO OUR VERY TROUBLED WORLD AND SHARE IT WITH OUR MUSLIM, JEWISH, BUDDHIST, SHIKH AND NON WORLD RELIGIOUS FOLKS WHETHER THEY BE ANIMIST, AGNOSTIC OR ATHEIST. "PEACE STARTS WITH YOU AND ME' mt teresa
2. JOY - A LEARNING OF TRULY LISTENING AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS IN THE HEART, MIND AND SOUL OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS. AND CONSEQUENTLY, MAY WE LEARN TO DANCE THE DANCE OF ANGER, LOSS, SUFFERING, JOY, LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE OTHER. HANNUKAKH, INSHALLAH, HALLELULIAH AND JOY TO THE WORLD ' COS IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE
3. LOVE - A GENUINE ACCEPTANCE AND SURRENDER TO THE NOW AND THE BEING IN CHARGE OF DESIGNING IT ALL. OUR GOD/ALLAH/YAHWEH REIGNS IF WE ALLOW THIS BEING TO BE.

 

• You Are Not Your Mind: Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking. Wow, what an incredible sense of freedom! Love, joy and peace cannot flourish unless we free ourselves from the control of the Mind. They are not merely emotions, they lie on a much deeper level. So we need to feel the disturbance - that is what emotion means -of the emotions before we can pass on to that inner connectedness with Being. Love, joy and peace have no opposites. That is because they arise from beyond the Mind. Emotions, on the other hand, being part of the Mind, are subject to the laws of opposites. The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain. We often confuse pleasure with love and joy!!!! Real love does not make you suffer.
• Consciousness: The Way Out of Pain. Being able to stop creating pain in the present and dissolving pain from the past forms part of conscious behaviour.Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend, not your enemy.
• Moving Deeply Into The Now: A large number of us live in the land of the ego. Consequently, our problems/sickness/diseases/excuses etc forms a large part of our sense of Self or Ego. The poor ego's needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatened and so lives in a state of fear and want. For some of us loosing our problems means loss of ego. Wow! Wow! Once we discover that connection of the mind (which includes emotions) with unconsciousness, we move out of it. We become PRESENT in the NOW. Life is NOW.The more we focus on the past and the future, the more we miss the NOW, the most precious thing there is.

“I have learnt silence from the talkative,

toleration from the intolerant,

and kindness from the unkind;

yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” 
                                                                                -Kahlil Gibran

So, my wonderful friends, 'In the NOW, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the NOW.' WOW...HERES TO THE 'NOW' MOMENTS IN OUR WONDERFUL LIVES!

 

• real character tastes the bitter sweet taste of confusion
• real character tastes the sadness in the Other
• real character tastes the beauty in the moment
• real character is the rock that stands tall in the midst of those rips in the ocean current
• real character stands the test of being dumped by that wave
• real character catches that wave that just passes by
• real character is the scent that stays in that pit of decay
• real character is the comfortable feel that one gets in the pit of one's stomach after a tornadeo hits town
• real character survives life in the rubbish bin and five star apartment simultaneously
• real character invests more deposits in that emotional bank account rather than withdraw
• real character knows that feeling, thinking and intuition work hand in hand
• real character knows that knowledge and wisdom are an intertwined web of clarity
• real character knows that it is more than that moment
• real character exemplifies that touch of elegance inspite of the brushes with darkness
• real character radiates on many surfaces
• real character shines in the darkest moment
• real character hears the bird that sings before dawn
• real character hears what is said, meant to be said and not said
• real character leaves the decisions to the HIGHER POWERS
• real friends don't just say; 'I wish i could help you...' They just know what it is that will help you right there and then and they do or say it.
• real friends and professionals cry, laugh, talk, hear and listen to you
• real friends feed your ego, will, intellect, heart and body
• real friends know you to be more than what you are in the here and now
• real friends enable you to grow
• real friends dance the tempo of life in tango with you

Muhwah, my wonderful beacons of hope, love and inspiration. You are indeed the pressed herbs in the Garden of Eden.

WARNING: AM NOT A HAPPY PUPPY IN THIS ONE...SO ENTER AT OWN RISK...

• The truth always shines in the end, no matter, how long it takes to come through
• You cannot undo lies, dishonesty, cheating, gossip, slander and the crossing of emotional boundaries
• Dishonesty leaves a heavy legacy of mistrust
• Excuse making leaves a heavy legacy of confusion
• Denial leaves a heavy legacy of further dishonouring the other person's integrity
• Christ himself suffered for his truth as did Ghandi and other great humanitarians. Therefore, I ask myself the question; 'Is this a path one must travel to become more of a divine human being?' Now that I have worked on the forgiveness thing perhaps this is the next mystical experience. It is a very painful and energy absorbing journey. I wonder what the growth moments will bring for me. I can only hope that I am a stronger, taller and better human being. Because at the moment I am a very fragile, distraught, angry, sad and frustrated mess.
• The pain of it all is not forgotten
• The tears that come with it has made me, a person who seldom cries, realise that it is a very deep seated pain and perhaps cleansing. Maybe it is the channel that I need to unleash all of those pent up tears, which others around me, seem to let flow quite easily. Yet, I always seemed to be the one supplying the tissues. Not this time, they are the suppliers of tissues on many occasions. I sometimes even wonder if my heart is melting to grow in a different direction.

Sorry folks that you have to be subjected to one of my moments of profound sadness and perhaps insight. If you were game enough to read the whole ramblings and have any wisdom please share it cos boy I need it right now. I know tomorrow will see me dancing and prancing and rambling again but the here and now sucks. Okay enough from this banshee!