I’m back from Rishikesh.
The holy city of hindus. Located in the foothills of the majestic Himalayas.
Ganga darshan.
A glimpse beyond the bag of bones.
Spiritual theatre
Passed many shaven pilgrims. I have a new vision of myself now. In this city of mystics, mendicants and seekers, my tonsured head blends in.
My dad and I sat by the side of the Ganges and dipped our fingers in the sacred river. He placed his hand on the crown of my head, leaving droplets in my pilgrim fuzz. We watched the faithful immerse themselves. Flashes of flesh, fabric flung away, a human ache meets the waters.
The waters cleanse it all away.
It is said.
More on the gathering place of the Rishis later…
On the B side, Cooking with Stella will be releasing in Canada soon.
Remember vinyl records? There was an A side and a B side.
India right now feels like the A side of my life.
A message from Dusty in Dilip Mehta’s office:
The Indian Film Festival of Las Angeles has invited Cooking with Stella to be a Gala presentation during their festival (April 20-24).
The festival would like the Gala presentation to also be a benefit screening to help raise awareness and support for the Myeloma Research Centre in California (http://www.imbcr.org/ ).
Another yellow memo:
And here’s a must-read article about MMRF Founder and CEO Kathy Giusti. The article discusses in Kathy’s own words, her experience living with Multiple Myeloma, her advice for patients and families living with a diagnosis and describes the instrumental role Kathy’s pharmaceutical and business background has played in the MMRF’s success in advancing the next generation of treatment.
http://www.parade.com/health/2010/02/25-kathy-giusti-misson-to-cure-multiple-myeloma.html?index=2
Kathy was diagnosed at 37, just like myself.
She is a Yellow Warrior. And my special Guru. I called Kathy a few months before, in the middle of a watery moment during chemo. As the liquid burned through my veins my mind turned to crisis.
And then Kathy was on the line. She somehow placed her hand on my brow, from a distance.
And I felt calm.
Just as I had sitting at dusk today, by the river with my father.
Sometimes the world is so beautiful and so fierce I can feel my heart tear.
I would like to be around for some time more.
Bobcat just had knee surgery. With my seeking on the ‘A side’, and Bobcat healing ‘B side’, we maintain a strange symmetry. Still, I wish I was close.
And a message from Rahulji in Goa:
Please come back soon. No one does handstands on the beach with me anymore!!
And Tishani is finishing all the ganaches before we get to them…
ah yes. I haven’t written on Goa yet because I’m trying to formulate a way to do it without reference to exact location. My friends are adamant of protecting the privacy of their favourite resort.
Time is coming to flow down from a higher place to sea.
Like the sacred river.
Best wishes from far far away to you!
Generous…
Courageous…
Humorous…
Peaceful…
Beautiful…
…Lisa
Peace! Love! Light! Yellow!
Thanks,
Nell
ya Best Wishes from far far away too…. take care my dear Angel.True,world is so beautiful and so fierce ,hang in there…
The Journey
~ Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
Peace & Blessings,
Susan
:)…………..a lot of smiles and good energy ms Ray
It’s 01.56 and my energy level just boosted up.
Thank you for sharing your stories and don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll be around for a quite a while.
Sweet dreams… =)
Dear Lisa,
Best wishes for you…Keep njoyin ur trip!!
Hello Beautiful,
Thanks for linking the Myeloma Research Centre in California, we need you here in the nice sunny California… 🙂 Very exciting news.
more pics, please!
Dear Lisa,
Nice pics, reminds me of “Water.” …….something something about treatment and LA…plus we want autographs! LOL. That was cute.
We love you Lisa!!!
Love,
Kareen and Putty Cat
Venezuela 13/03/2010, 8:55pm. Hi Ms Ray, I’m glad again to read about your new expiriences and feelings…there is some amazing places in this world that we dont apreciated, our earth is bless.Here in my state (trujillo) we have an special place where so many people around the world come to pray and hope to get better, this place is named Isnotu…we believe in Dr jose Gregorio Hernandez…on monday i will send you some information…
Good night, have a sweet dream. Hugs.
Venezuela, 13/03/2010, 9:05pm. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Venezuela, 13/03/2010, 9:05pm. 🙂 🙂 🙂
That place looks so tranquil. I bet it is good for the mind. Thanks for the positivity Lisa – your words clear my mind in so many ways
Hey Lisa,
Life is all about learning! I wish you the best as you continue on your journey.
Love,
Psyche
Venezuela, 13/03/2010, 9:30pm, 🙂 🙂 🙂
Habibiti,
Thank you very much for your new post.
I readed about Rishikesh. Mistical place… 🙂
Anything that helps you in your recovery can be considered magic… Don’t you think? 🙂 🙂
Enjoy your time.
And continues to write whenever you want. Especially for you.
Be perfect? Life would be boring. What we dedicate if we already had everything under control? Mmmm…..
If we were perfect, the effort and example words disappears…
Best wishes,
Ximena. 🙂
FFF!!! I think you used this words very well!! 🙂 🙂
Oh!!!
Best wishes for Bobcat too!!!! 🙂
He is wonderful…
Greetings to him. 🙂
Ximena. 🙂
Hi Lisa
Keep on Truckin…and if you have time read Michael Ondaatje’s book Anil’s Ghost…..my favourite book of all time!
Just a bag of bones is what I thought, when my mom was being creamated. This earth is it, we live and perish here, just biodegradable matter and thats what we are doc.
You have a wonderful father. And of course you are gonna be here for a lot more time. Its a pleasure reading your stuff so often these days. tc
your strength is unbelievable. i admire your courage in your journey and hope to meet you someday…
Hi Lisa,
welcome back, you were missed. I wish you best of luck on your newbirth journey. I have read most of the self help books you mentioned and these books are just the beginning of this new insight to life. The hardest and longest part is standing still with your own reflection and shadow. Time is on your side and this is your journey to enjoy and teach your findings. You will fullfil your purpose as the universe meant for you to do.
Lots of respect coming your way.
Dear Lisa,
Follow the moment, one of the messages I got from your writings, maybe because, who knows, it is better to go through life to do something you want to do, the immense of strength resurrected along the way. Thank you for embracing us to join in your personal journey, to view the world unseen through your silvery green eyes and beautiful mind, the scale of universe.
Peace n love
u.
Thanx a lot for the local link. I have directed friends to this site for MM links but having a Beverly Hills contact Institute is excellent for my hood villagers! Love, wan.
Lisa,
Confidence is not a feeling but just a positive state of mind..
It’s awesome that you are back! I enjoy reading what you have to say and learn from it. You are an awesome person and you continue to touch people lives. I continue to pray for you to beat this 110%. Continue thinking positive as it will keep putting smiles on your face and laugher.
Can’t wait to hear from you again and again you are an AWESOME person especially at heart!
Dear Lisa
My heart and you pray together with pray for heavenly blessing~我的心和妳一起祈禱與祝福.
~ ^ ^
You’ll always be here with us no matter what! 🙂
FIGHT ON BABE 🙂
“Sometimes the world is so beautiful and so fierce I can feel my heart tear.
I would like to be around for some time more.”
yeah.. I wish for that too…
Big love Lisa, big love! Always inspiring and leaves me awestruck.
Krista
Hola Chica!
Wow! You have no idea how happy I got when my friend Wan called me to tell me you posted. I jumped into the computer right away. I must say that this news just makes my day, week, month, and even year. This is amazing news, I am on cloud 9 and I love it!
I can’t believe it, someone up there just loves me. Like Lucy Lawless says, from your mouth to God’s ears. I guess my prayers were heard. Funny how 2 days ago I posted about looking forward to seeing Cooking with Stella and you posted this. It would be really unbelievable to have you here in LA. What else can you ask for?: Have a great doctor’s invitation, be at the Gala premier of Cooking with Stella and the best part, have fun in the sun. You can also have a great time at night. 😉
Anyway, I really hope you can visit sunny Los Angeles and can also be singing the song “I Love LA”. It would be a dream come true for all the fans in LA (especially me, what can I say, I am not usually selfish, but this is a once in a lifetime thing). You will see how much your LA fans and everyone else in the surrounding areas will come to see you and support the cause. Bring Lisa and they will come…
Love,
Xena (Your Ecuadorian fan in Eagle Rock, CA, USA)
Thank your for all you say, since I read your blog, I’ve regained my desire to conrinue fightig.
I am passionate abput India, I also dip their fingers in the water of the Ganges. I have wanted to continue living.
I am your sister in the figh against cancer, I sure we will overcome it.
A million sweet kisses from Barcelona (Spain)
NEW POST… NEW POST
THIS MAKE ME SO HAPPY 😀 I FEEL SO HAPPY FOR YOU..
THANK YOU FOR SHARE THIS WITH US !!!
I’D LIKE TO SUPPORT YOU SOMEHOW…..
LOVE YOUUUUUUUU LISAA……
KISSES !
HUGS !
SEE YOU SOON !
FROM MEXICO !
always a joy and a sadness in reading you! God bless you!
Dear Lisa,
After looking at your diary, i am so disconsolate, i don’t know why.
Just hope you will really happy everyday!
i can just know you according your diary, i don’t feel enough. A beautiful women with sensitive feeling, sitting beside the river, looking at people around her, without talking. People have different side in their life, and i wish you could enjoy everything around you because we’ll beside you and love you forever!
when you feel sad, just remenber there is someone who never stop loveing you!
maybe i can’t express me well in English, just hope you can understand what i want to say!
hope you happy!!!
美丽 智慧 才情 乐观 幸福!
Lisa just read your recent blog, really I don’t believe I can call it that. No justice in “Truth” The words you express are unforgetable. I am from Canada, hope you are not leaving for good! Another reason for getting back to you is a “Screen Saver from India” I will not have the chance to see it in my lifetime, so would be nice to see it from your perspective!
Hope you are doing well……I wish I could take care of you during this time, hope you are not alone! The wig bearers are ready for your shoot…..screw the hair and the glare…you are a sacred vessel right now, Take the “Yellow Babies” and get better, I have prayed for them. Take care of your self, much love LAW:)
Lisaraniray, Lisa, Lisita,Talita, Habibti, Beatiful Princess:
buenos dìas corazón….
que gustoo! que nos escribiste de nuevo muchas gracias por compartir tus momentos con nosotros,..
Es muy interesante la cultura de la India, bellisimos paisajes,..los ultimos días he conocido mas del lugar donde te encuentras,…tambien de Mahatma Gandhi y la Madre Teresa de Calcuta,….
bendito internet que hace posible que aparte de que nos comuniquemos podamos compartir experiencias e información para que juntos encontremos una solución a la cura de MM,…
“all together we got the energy to push for a cure for MM ”
Lisita: bendito el día en que te conocí.
bella muy bella que eres… no solamente en tu fisico, sino tambien en tu personalidad y tu alma…
No me canso en decirte una y otra vez,…
Lisa: Te quiero,….te quiero con todo mi corazón
y aunque un medio mundo nos separa de distancia, siempre estaré contigo,… así como Kathy,…
“She somehow placed her hand on my brow, from a distance.”
“And I felt calm.”
Sí sientete tranquila, Todo va a estar bien de aquí en adelante,… Dios estara contigo en cada momento,…
Sonríe siempre mi Amor.
heart … good morning.
that gustoo! write us again thank you very much for sharing your time with us ..
Interestingly the Indian culture, beautiful landscapes, the last few days .. I’ve met most of where you are, … also from Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa of Calcutta ….
blessed internet that allows us to communicate besides we can share experiences and information so that together we find a solution to a cure for MM, …
“All together we got the energy to push for a cure for MM”
Lisita, blessed the day I met you.
very beautiful you are beautiful … not just your physical but also your personality and your soul …
I never tire of telling you again and again …
Lisa: I love you …. I love you with all my heart
and though the world half distance between us and always will be with you … and Kathy …
“She somehow Placed her hand on my brow, from a distance.”
“And I felt calm.”
Yes YOURSELF quiet, all will be fine from now on … God is with you every moment …
Always smile my love
My dear Lisa,
Starting my Sunday with your new blog…it’s amazing. I am glad that you are back again and continue to share your thoughts with us.
The calmness and peace are pouring form your words.
You are blessed being able to stay at such a sacred place with your beloved father.
The tranquilty is the most important for you these period of your life and we all understood why you did not post earlier.
I am sure that after a while your A and B side will be unite again, but it is sure that your recovery procedure and healing of your soul must be on the A side now.
Rememeber last year I sent a quote to you about travelling which you put in your blog “Mane Tamer” too…it is more than true these days:
“Certainly travel is more than seeing of sights. It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living”
Enjoy your time in your sacred country where you have deep roots and come back when you feel it’s the right time to return!
I am sending my best wishes to your Bobcat, too…hopefully you two can be together again SOON!
With heartfelt hugs
Kati from Hungary
Dearest Lisa,
For some reason, I deeply feel the spiritual journey you are going through in your pilgrimage to such a Holy place in Rishikesh and being around the divinity of nature there in Landour.
I guess it’s because I myself is aching to get away from where I am now to shed away my restlessness…
I practice Marcel Proust advice about seeking new landscape with new eyes but sometimes its best to leave a familiar place and find a new side of our self in different horizons.
My Heart leaps in joy when you mentioned that you have a new vision of yourself… it must be such a high and mystical moment for you…
I rejoice knowing that for you have been through the best of dark and light in the last couple of months… and I Believe that things are coming into Full Circle for you.
I read somewhere that “Water is infinitely full of Life”…
… and for me, Water is a tangible intangible thing. We can hold it but not thoroughly grip it… maybe that’s a metaphor for our Life… and we just have to flow with it wherever it will take us…
In your case, you are flowing from a ‘high place’ and streaming onto new wonderful chapters in your Life.
I have always admired the poetry in your writing… ever since actually, and now more so…
Thank you for describing the searing beauty of Life, I truly felt what you meant when you wrote this:
“Sometimes the world is so beautiful and so fierce I can feel my heart tear.”
With that, new melodies break forth from my heart and it brings a solemn throb in my innermost soul.
For many of us here, You are a Kindred Spirit… one whom we can truly relate to… for you take us in your journey openly and you shift our eyes to a new perspective.
If I may add as well, I am touched to know that your Dad is there with you in such a soulful experience…
I think it is very befitting… to acknowledged the challenges you both have gone through as a family, give deep Gratitude and cleansed your souls for a new birth… a new lease in Life.
My respectful salutation and my deepest admiration,
–Nerissa
PS:
Please do consider my suggestion about your blog… it might help… Thank you.
Lisa
Thanks for sharing with me the journey your soul is taking. I must admit that i know nothing about India and when you write about it..brings me closer to what you see and feel.
I am in a mission to learn about India and their traditions.
Let me tell remind you that you are an amazing human being and that you are not alone. I totally understand that you have your friends and i hope that in the future we can be friends too.
You are always in my mind and in my prayers.
Keep fighting and don’t forget that the world loves you.
Keep writing Lisa…
Believe it or not… The world cares.
Love you
Charlize
Lisa
Thanks for sharing with me the journey your soul is taking. I must admit that i know nothing about India and when you write about it..brings me closer to what you see and feel.
I am in a mission to learn about India and their traditions.
Let me remind you that you are an amazing human being and that you are not alone. I totally understand that you have your friends and i hope that in the future we can be friends too.
You are always in my mind and in my prayers.
Keep fighting and don’t forget that the world loves you.
Keep writing Lisa…
Believe it or not… The world cares.
Love you
Charlize
and i would like to speak with Dr. Berenson regarding Ms. Ray’s …and i have somserious health problems … can not say on the blog. but I can only say that I changed into a treatment and I do not feel well … Lisa I’m glad you involved in many charity..
Really iwhis to speack with him…pleas help me ……
Always a pleasure to read your post.
Thanks for sharing.
June
Hi Lisa;
Dr. Berenson exudes competence and commitment to curing MM. I’ve met him. He spoke to our support group in Portland, OR, which is also his hometown. I wrote about his visit at http://goodbloodbadblood.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/mystery/.
Thank you for including us all with your pilgrimage to India.
http://goodbloodbadblood.wordpress.com/
hi, i hope your doin’ ok… i just watched i cant think straight, and i was fascinated with tala’s character, but i am much more fascinated with the actress behind her, she seem so free spirited, deep deep personality, i just have this feeling that shes a very beautiful, wonderful and a very special human being…
i hope to see more of your films…
hugs and kisses.. god bless always…….
This Yellow Rainbow is for you, Lisa.
All shades of yellow in you
And that is probably the clue
To your unending optimism
And overwhelming magnetism.
Unfailing charm and doe grace,
A strong will and gentle face –
They sparkled out of the blue
A yellow rainbow in you.
A tender might your eyes reveal,
The pain felt your smiles conceal.
Can’t reach a distant yellow star,
But may be you are not that far?
Gold yellow candle in the dark
Illuminates a run of luck,
Like beacon in the raging sea.
Don’t worry, sail free.
Keep up your journey safe and calm,
Feel steady wheel beneath your palm.
What’s helping start your life anew –
All shades of yellow in you.
Hmmmm Lisa,
don’t know whether my comments will be skipped or not
but just felt like writing to you.you are half Bengali right?
“TARATARI SHUSTHO HOYE OTHO NAHOLE AMAR MOVIE TE
KEMON KORE KAAJ KORBE”??
may be that was something stupid that i just said
moreover i doubt you will understand it or not
its in bengali.
well i am very bad at expressing myself through words
so no idea what i am writing.
you have a lot of fans writing to you everyday
so nothing’s gonna make mine thoughtful….again
said something stupid i know…
all i want to say is please get well soon.and you will
i know.and one more thing..we both are Rays…again stupid right?yeh..thats all for now..lastly,you are a great actor,and keep it up..and you are simply great.
BHALO THEKO….LOVE YOU A LOT…REALLY DO..TAKE CARE..
Dew…
Venezuela, 14/03/2010, 7:52 am.
Dear Ms Ray, how are you doing today…. Beautiful day in my city, very warm.. I have some plans today wich includes you, i am going to visit isnotu’s church, tomorrow i will send you some information about it. Take care, enjoy your sunday.. Hugs
Warm healing energy and thoughts to you, Ms. Ray. Indeed, may you be around for a lot more time. You are remembered in my meditations, always.
Nunca dejes de tener esa fuerza.
Saludos desde España.
Venezuela, 14/03/2010, 7:52 am.
Dear Ms Ray, how are you doing today…. Beautiful day in my city, very warm.. I have some plans today wich includes you, i am going to visit isnotu’s church, tomorrow i will send you some information about it. Take care, enjoy your sunday.. Hugs
when I read your post this morning I felt like a school girl on a field trip. Keep writing because you have opened a ray of hope for me and many others across the world.
I know you will be around for many more years to come once you have faith and the will.
love you
Lisa,
I hope that you find all that you seek! I must say that I have only recently discovered you but since that discovery I have been moved by you and your journey. I look forward to your presence for many many many years to come.
I know its been a few years since you made “The World Unseen”, but I wanted to say thank you for such a wonderful performance. You are amazing and I am wishing the best for you and all who are closest to you.
Jennifer
Dear Lisa,
Stay strong and be positive!
Miracle happens!
God bless you!
When I left hospital in Milan years ago for a tumor vesicular linked to pregnancy, after having spent 3 months in and out of the hospital between chemotherapy and psychotherapy, the doctor who healed me said to me: “After all this crap you’ve swallowed and that we have shot in the vein you find a breath heavy. But so heavy that your toothbrush asked to make the switch with that of the bath”.
Lisa, I burst out laughing and continued to do so for days … .. I discovered the power of laughter and warmth, the embrace of humor …. And maybe without my family and the music I would not have done it.
One book: “Cancer and the search for lost sense” of Pier Mario Biava.
A big hug …. Go Lisa go ….
Om Namah Sivaya.
Hey Lisa,
felt really gut reading ur blog today coz it was nice to know
that u r in India and went to the holy city of Rishikesh and sat
by the ganga our holy river , with ur father by ur side and had
this sense of calm, feeling the water of the holy river.Gosh
dos’nt it feel like the feeling going straight to ur soul.
I felt the same to as it is my native place and i had tears in my
eyes when i was there and going up to the mountains for a
trek.
Lisa when the way u have dealt through this whole process
so well and are recovering so well then am sure ur are going
to go a long way n be around for a real long time and this is a
strong feeling i have.
Wishing u more such moments of calm with ur dad.
wishing bobcat to have a quick recovery so he can be by ur
side and share some of ur happy moments
An eternity of happiness.
with luv
SAM
YG
Hi 🙂
Glad Your Back Blogging and to hear that your doing well. Although i understand the break.
Your blog is always so inspiring and educational, i mean the amount i learn just reading it about cultures, health, Life, New words?
Extremely Interesting. You take us all on this Journey with you with such honesty and so openly, i’ve began to look at certain things differently. I’ve began to treasure relationships and friendships so much more. Not taking anything for granted.
I’ve also decided that i want to see places, more so than ever, I’ve decided that during this summer of college i wish to travel east and experience different cultures.
You WILL be around for Sometime More. Stay POSITIVE.
‘Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.’
In my thoughts and prayers. Always.
All my love,
Bex- Ireland
É sempre uma experiencia maravilhosa ler o que vc escreve.
Wow!!! Such energy Lisa is a source of inspiration.
Enjoying & living life to the fullest, every day, is the most intoxicating and exhilarating experience….
It is great to see you do that…
Reaffirms my faith in living life NOW!!!
Thanks….keep laughing….have fun!!
Why wouldn´t you be around for some more time? I think you will… I admire your strength and your humor, please don´t lose that. I wish I could do something or say something important… I was donating blood on Friday and still feel I have to do more.
I´ve never been really religious… but I believe in mystic… and where else would you go to see a miracle, a healing wonder when not India, wouldn´t you?
I think of you,
Jess
The photos are beautiful. So happy you are taking the time to do this for your health and eternal peace.
Today is my Birthday Lisa.and through this post i want to direct all the well and happy wishes for me from my friends and family, to you.
INCLUDING MINE!
thats alot 🙂
I just want you to be soooo happy i can’t express it in words.
YOU TAKE CARE BABE 🙂
LOVEYOU ❤
Just a quick note between chores. Nice pics – the place looks serene and healing as well. Hope you continue to reflect positive energy Lisa on all of us. You are appreciated by all. Your health first though – take care.
Wow!
my dear lisa,
You had posted so many things these days but I just had a express read cosz I have no time & my poor English.I’ll come next time,maybe tomorrow.Here is a lovely song ,hope you have fun.
http://ting.mbox.sogou.com/listenV2.jsp?cid=1B08B50743AEC3CF&gid=136244fcd98b49ca&s=at17&t=meow+meow+meow&lid=7d1e57ed26d1b1b4&lyricoffset=0.0&ac=1&w=02009900&_asf=mp3.sogou.com&_ast=1268588146&from=search&pp=txt
↖(^ω^)↗↖(^ω^)↗↖(^ω^)↗
KEEP ON FIGHTING!
It’s wonderful to read your posts Lisa. Enjoy your time in India! Enjoy the A side of your life!!
Really hope to meet you someday,
Love from Paris,
Pascaline
Hi Lisa,
I wish and hope you are doing fine..am a fan of yours and aware about the situations you have been going through.
I am Jain by religion and I follow it, just saw that you are back from Rishikesh trip which is really neat..as there is something about the land of India specially when it comes to pure and deep spirituality..Indians are assumed to be followers of the same.
I would strongly urge you to once go through the basics of Jainism and if possible try and apply those simple principles in your daily routine..I am sure you would be most benefitted, specially in such a time when you need the real inner strength. Jainism belives in very simple concepts like understanding and following a non-violence approach which is not only restricted to phisically harming any living being but involving your mind or speech as well.
If you wish I can mail you some real good journal to read online on your mail id……and I am confident and hopeful
that you will be really really feeling nice about your or mine or for the matter anybodies presence around for however of the time we all are alive on this earth.
Send me your email id on my personal id..will send you some good reading stuff related to concepts of Jainism.
I hope you will personaly go through my mail..and I am hoping to see your positive response…. 🙂
Thanks, Take Care,
Om Bhikshu – Om Arham
Rekha Jain.
i just pray everyday that u b alright i know u r a fighter n i know somehow ull win this battle …when i read it i felt as if i m there n felt calm in my heart …i just pray for your happiness
take care
may Allah , Eshwar, God bless u …
GRACIAS POR SUS PALABRAS. Me alegre mucho al saber q esta en su ciudad y sobretodo con su padre para este momento tan dificil. AL leer su blog salieron muchas lagrimas son palabras desde lo mas profundo de su corazon y de una persona con muchas ganas de vivir.Sabe estoy mu triste por que en mi pais CHILE esta sufriendo por un debastador terremoto y maremoto en las costas chilenas,murieron muchos chilenos y hoy queda la tristeza y el desconsuelo de toda una nacion.HOY CHILE LLORA A TODOS SUS MURTOS.Hoy me doy cuenta q nuestras en fermedades son tan pequeñitas ante estas catastrofes.Por eso he querido compartir sta tristeza con usted,creo q es bueno compartir lo bueno y lo malo de nuetras vidas.Mi qerida LISA la vida continua y ha que seguir luchando.Recuerda siempre estas palabras.SI HAY ALGO QUE NO PUEDES DEJAR PARA MAÑANA ES SER FELIZ.LISA PARA USTED UN FUERTE ABRAZO Y QUE DIOS LA ACOMPAÑE EN ESTA NUEVA ETAPA DE SU VIDA.FUERZA LISA FUERZA CHILE.
pozdrawiam Cię z Polski Lisa, nie poddawaj się a na pewno zwyciężysz 🙂
Hi,
I cannot expect a reply from you but wish to believe that you would reply! I have been reading a lot about you off late – Won’t lie but always liked you from whatever little I saw you. I am not a regular movie watcher but now I wish I could get all your DVDs and watch them repeatedly. I wish to meet you one day…knowing I am not even close to this dream…You are an angel!
I stay in Delhi and you are currently travelling to India. So in case you happen to travel this side of the country, I would pray to God that I can meet you. Just one glimpse of yours, a few words, chance to get to see your sparkling smile, your bright eyes would do wonders to me. Truely Love You!!! You Take Care and as said before – Wish You Reply…!!!
Arpita Datta
arpita.del@gmail.com
+91 9910241299
Venezuela, 14/03/2010, 4:05 pm.
Dear Ms Ray, how are you doing today…. Beautiful day in my city, very warm.. I have some plans today wich includes you, i am going to visit isnotu’s church, tomorrow i will send you some information about it. Take care, enjoy your sunday.. Hugs
Dear Lisa,
This is my first post on a blog ever (and only the 2nd blog ever that I read on a regular basis) . I came upon your blog by accident – following the news on your diagnosis last summer, I googled you in the fall to see how you were doing. Glad I did!
I just had to tell you that how thrilled I am that you are back and sounding so strong already – bravo! So happy for you and your family. I know that things will only get better, and soon, from now on. Without sounding presumptuous, I also know that you have been to hell and back – I have a friend who had the stem cell transplant a few years ago (in his own words ” they kill you first and then they bring you back”). Back then, he bounced back so quickly that in a few short months, we forgot he had ever been ever sick in the first place. Today, you would never know he was ever sick, he is back to his own self, doing what he always loved (which is traipsing around the world and fun), with occasional tune-up, as he calls it. Hope it goes the same for you. And you guys are heroes, by the way – I always think that if I were ever diagnosed with cancer, I would die of fright on the spot, and yet here you are, taking it on with such grace and educating us in the process. How humbling!
So glad you are in India now – I hope it will make you even stronger. Never been there, only by proxy – my daughter went backpacking through India last year, and kept me posted every step of the way (she had her birthday in Goa and like you, doesn’t reveal the spot, for same reasons). She is Polish, by the way, and lives in Warsaw (and I am Polish and live in Toronto) – your mum was Polish, right? Your entries are so beautiful and wise – can’t wait to hear more how the trip goes, and your thoughts on it. And please add “writer” to your career profile, the one starting with “sometimes actress” – but I hope you won’t stop being an actress. I got to know you through “Water”, which I saw first – I have a DVD now – on a plane to Sri Lanka in 2006 (how fitting, as I know it was filmed there, and why). I was blown away and I hope you know what an exceptional, talented, beautiful woman you are. The picture in India Today is simply stunning!
Keep well and enjoy India – but keep writing as well, it seems that there is quite a crowd in your corner, and we are all hungry for your news.
Love, Kasia
Hi Lisa,
It is by chance I watched the movie ‘Water’ on Channel 4 in UK today. I remember you as the Bombay Dyeing model while growing up in the Doordarshan days. As a wee girl even when the whole concept of ‘sexy’ was not fully understood I really thought you were the most beyond beautiful woman I have ever seen on telly. You were in a league of your own. You were hot and still are today. Just seen you on the cover of a mag. You are by far the most beautiful bald chick. Please it is the most sincere compliment and not meant to be offensive. While I was watching the movie today, I was nervous when the old woman cuts your hair off. But you know what, when the camera shows you with the hair shaved I remember saying to myself damn she still looks hot. My sincere wishes and prayers will be with you. You are a strong woman and you can beat it. God bless you dear.
Hi Lisa,
I learnt about you a couple of months back somewhere in the internet, ironically that was also about the same time as my mother being diagnosed with breast cancer. I am a graduate student doing my PhD, living now in Pittsburgh, US many oceans away from my family which is in Calcutta, India and has gone through a really hard time. Cancer is something I have read hundreds of papers on through my graduate study, I know the molecular and cellular basis of it, often read and hear of the new advances in seminars and symposiums and yet I have never known it as I know it now after its hit someone who means the world to me. My mother’s been in treatment, her cancer isn’t advanced and hopefully after her surgery which has been followed by chemotherapy she’ll soon be perfectly healthy. I started blogging actively and also following your blog about the same time since I have known of her illness, its been something that has sustained me all this while. You are an amazing writer and your courage is awe inspiring. Watching my mother through webcam going through the transformation induced by chemotherapy, losing her hair and all, being so far away, its the hardest thing I have ever done. But I have found hope and reassurance in your writing. I don’t know whether I’ll ever hear back from you but just want to let you know that like I pray for my Mum I’ll be also praying for you. You look stunning just as you are now, ‘cuz you are a warrior. Do keep writing, its a pleasure to read your blog and share your journey.
Best Wishes
Priyanka
Hi Lisa,
I first saw you in All Hat and thought what a beautiful woman you are. Then I saw I Can’t Think Straight and finally The World Unseen and now of course, I am love. I keep going back to the scene in World where you say “You are the first person to smile at me in eight days. I know because I counted.” Thank you for making movies for all the sisters in the world. I send you all my prayers for strength, love and determination to beat this horrible disease. Now that I have found you, I don’t want to lose you. You are in my thoughts daily.
Lisa,
Yup, Life is fierce and soft to. I’m happy each day that gravity has still decided to hold and keep me/all of us earthbound.
I spent my Sunday afternoon whiling away at a Botanical Garden staring at all the beautiful plants and flowers there. You see they need people like me to appreciate them, which I do. Thye like me and I like them, it’s a good match.
I enjoy reading about your travel jaunts, makes me want to grab my backpack and take off for unknow parts. I sometimes think about the Grand Canyon and how those layers of rocks are so lucky because they have been around for eons and eons and we humans barely squeeze 70-80 years in and then its by-by to the great beyond. Being born under the sign of the scales- this doesn’t seem balanced and fair, but then I remember where I am and that I have to balance the scales myself.
Enjoy India, Enjoy Life!
Jo
Hola querida lisa espero de todo corazon, que pronto te encuentres bien de salud y que un dia cuando despiertes todo sea como antes sin ningun dolor, y todo lo pasado sea como un sueno del que despertaste para resurgir como un ave fenix, donde el poder de dios y de todas las oraciones de las personas que te quieren triunfen, no importando su creencia o religion todos los buenos pensamientod y los deseos son para ti. Hay cosas de la vida que son dificiles de superar pero no imposibles cuando se tiene la valentia de afrontarlo como tu lo has estado haciendo sigue asi que es la ley de la vida. Y recuerda siempre EL AMOR QUE TU TIENES PARA TI ES EL MISMO AMOR QUE TIENES PARA DAR, PORQUE ASI COMO TU TE QUIERES ES COMO QUIERES A LOS QUE TE RODEAN. Que Dios te bendiga hoy y siempre.
Gracias por hacer extensible tu día a día ,lo bien que escribes lo hace muy cercano,es una satisfacion enorme ver como te vas recuperando, como esascelulas madre siguen y siguen multiplicandose,que mejor hogar para hacerlo…
Muchos abrazos
All my prayers! I lighted some candles for you at St. Jude church here.
In life it’s not a question of “how”, it’s a question of “why”.
Hold on to your deepest why.
Never stop fighting!
=)
Dear Priyanka,
Any talk about mothers is a soft and heart-aching topic for me…
I’m sending prayers and positive energy to your Mum for her complete recovery.
I Believe that all Higher Forces out there are continually looking after her…
What I learned when our family was going through the health crisis of our Mom is that to hold on tight to Hope no matter what and just be there for her the best way you can…
Much Support and Health for your Mum,
–Nerissa
🙂 I enjoy reading… all my prayers for strength.
like a novel, re-reading your entries reveals new and divine knowledge–increasing the inspiration and thinking:)
its beautiful.
thank you, Lisa Ray:)
India sounds exhilarating.
yours,
Katie from Nampa, Idaho
Dear Lisa,
its always inspiring to read ur blog..Thank you so much…
i have been many time to Rishikesh & Hardwar… Amazing Places..
I Pray to God for you to gives all strength and power to fight with this disease..
We all want to see you always happy and smiling…
You are such a darling.. 🙂
You know Lisa, I am in love…..:)
Every single moment i think about you.. Every little things about you make me smile.
Hope oneday i will see your beautiful face..
Love you so much Lisa…:)
Juhi Verma
Delhi(India)
our dear lisa,
even behind the veil, i can see your ever positive and endearing smile. you push us all to higher planes with your attitude despite the adversities in life. we love you much.
Hy, angel!
I’m glad that spring is back, i’m glad that u are here again with all of us…Thank you so much, my beautifull endless spring! @};-
“Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and
changing everything carefully
spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and fro moving New and
Old things,while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there)and
without breaking anything.” (ee cummings )
Hey Beautiful
It’s nice to hear from you again… 🙂 smiles
Dear Lisa
Hope and with blessing~希望和與祝福
~ ^ ^
Rabindranath Tagore said it best :
“Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
Hi lovely Lisa…
The things you have been written were so wonderfull…
I cant stop reading…you are a good writer…
ohya…hope i can be your friend someday~~
May u be healthy and pretty always~~
i will support you for always…love you~~
Hmmm, you know, L.A. is actually lovely in the early
Spring. . Bouganvilla blooming strong crimson to purple against the monocromatic desert landscape. Oh and the yellows, mustn’t forget the Yellow… Nameste
Dear Lisa,
I am really to see ur strength to fight against cancer and because of strength and confidence I am writing this to u. Consider this a piece of advice as u r into spirituality please take the shelter of Lord and totally surrender on to Him ..Chant the holy name of the Lord …Remember Him all the time …I am sending u an article hope it will help u to understand more what I am trying to say ..
Krishna bless u
Hare Krishna
Padma
This is a Lecture transcript of the spiritual discourse given by a saint at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
I request all of you to close your eyes and concentrate on the beautiful verses from the ancient scriptures in glorification of the Supreme and thereafter I will begin my talk.
Eternal seekers of divine bliss!
The subject for the talk today is very challenging and very controversial. To discuss a subject like this in just a period of one hour is a herculean task before me. Nevertheless, I assure you that if you listen very carefully and with an open mind, then you will leave this hall with a new and positive understanding about this question, “Why me?”
Let me tell you a true story. A young New Yorker named Glen Chambers had this lifelong dream to spread the word of God in the country called Ecuador in South America. On the day of his departure at the airport, he wanted to send a note to his mother but he had no time to buy a card. He spotted a piece of paper on the terminal floor and picked it up. It happened to be an advertisement with the word “Why?” spread across it. He quickly scribbled his note around this “Why?” and sent it to his mother through a friend. That night, his plane exploded into a 14,000ft. Columbian peak called El Tablazo. When his mother received the note after the news of his death, the question burned at her from the page, “Why?” I’m sure that some of you sitting here must have similar incidents to share. We are consistently confronted by suffering of different kinds throughout our life on this earth.
Firstly there is global suffering. You have natural disasters like earth quakes, floods, famines and tsunamis and we also have small and major wars all the time which result in suffering that is pervasive. Secondly, we have communal tragedies. Every day you read or hear about a plane crash, a ship sinking, a train accident and many other such tragedies. Who can forget September 11, 2001 when there was an attack on the World Trade Centre. 3,000 innocent people were killed including 346 firefighters. This incident not only shook the foundation of one city, but the entire world! Even after that, we have been shocked time and again by such tragic incidents that are part of our lives.
Lastly we have individual suffering. We all go through it to a greater or lesser extent. Suffering is an inseparable part of our earthly existence and it comes to us in an endless variety of forms i.e. poverty, disease, broken relationships, unhappy marriages, loneliness, depression, prosecution and so on and so forth. Whenever we have to go through some such tragedy, we wonder and cry out “Why me?” I am sure some of you sitting here have already asked a question like this in your life. Theologians, philosophers, psychologists and ordinary men through centuries have wrestled with this question of suffering and hardly anyone has come up with a simple and complete answer.
Today I am here to share with you the precious and invaluable wisdom that I have learnt and experienced through my divine master and I am sure that it will make a difference in your life as well.
The first question is – what is the reason or the cause of suffering in our lives? Is it something that happens by chance or is it something that God whimsically inflicts upon us without any reason? The answer is that it is neither. We ourselves are responsible for all the pain and pleasure we experience in our life. You must have heard the saying, “What you sow, you reap.”
This is called the law of cause and effect and is referred to as the doctrine of karm. Each human being has a freedom to perform action and every action that we perform produces results or fruits. We have to work out, go through the fruits of these actions whatever they may be – good or bad.
Some of these actions, due to their inherent nature, bear fruit maybe in this life itself and some are like ‘term deposits’ with long maturity dates. They pass on to other lives. This is destiny. Destiny is nothing but the result of our own actions which we performed with a freedom of will. In other words, we are products of the past and producers of the future. Do you want to know what your future is? Your future is the past modified by the present. Fruit arises out of action and action out of fruit. We get what we earn, no more and no less. Therefore to cry out against some apparent injustice is only ignorance of this law of karm.
To be born a cripple, an athlete, a beggar or a king is just the sum total of our own actions. God is no way responsible for the pleasure and pain we experience. This is the law of karm and it is this chain that ties us to the wheel of birth and rebirth which is called the doctrine of reincarnation. I am sure you have heard of all these terminologies. More and more people in this world are beginning to accept both the law of karm and the doctrine of reincarnation because this is the only thing that makes life meaningful.
What I am telling you today, would take months to explain and years to understand. That is why you have to excuse me if I only refer to these points briefly as we have to come to the main point.
I’ll put to you some beautiful words by a western philosopher called William Jones which he said two centuries ago. He is the one who introduced Indian philosophy to Europe. He said, “I am no Hindu but I hold the Hindu doctrine concerning rebirth as incomparably more pious, more rationale, more likely to deter man from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by the Christians about punishment without an end.”
Let us come to the next point, “What is God’s role here?” in this picture we are talking about because you need to know the facts properly. Most people, whenever they go through any kind of tragedy or accident, end up blaming God, accusing Him and even cursing Him! So before we waste our time blaming God, let’s find out the facts.
The first role of God is He gives us the power to perform actions. That is why it is said, “Not a leaf stirreth without the will of God.” God gives us the power to do. We have beautiful verses in the Vedas,
(Kathopanishad 1.4-1.
What are these verses saying? It says here, “It is God who gives the power of speech to the tongue.” The tongue has a double function, the only sense organ that has two functions: taste and speech. It is the most dangerous of sense organs because 99% of unhappiness in this world is due to this tongue; what we speak. We have a lot of trainers – lion trainers, snake trainers etc., but unfortunately there is no tongue trainer. God gives the power of seeing to the eyes, the power of hearing to the ears etc. He empowers us to do but does not interfere in our freedom to do. He gives you the power and you are free to do. Free to see what you want, free to hear what you want, free to say what you want but the power is His. He does not interfere. He says in this great book of scripture, the Bhagvat Gita: (Chap 5, Verse 14 & 15)
After giving us the power to do, what does He do after that? He takes note of each and every action that we perform each and every second. Every action! What a master computer there must be! You cannot imagine. Every human being, all actions are recorded. This is the second role of God.
Thirdly, after recording all those actions of ours, He gives the fruits. He is the one who dispenses the fruits of the actions. Now, I am sure a lot of you know and accept, even villagers in India accept that the misery, the cruelty, the suffering that we see and experience in life is our own doing. But our question is, “We do not have any objection to God rewarding us for our good actions but why does He punish us for our bad actions?” This is our problem.
It is said that God is the loving father – all religions – (Hindi) i.e. “Our father who art in heaven…” Not only that, the scriptures talk about many other relations.
“He is not only the father, He is the mother, He is your child, He is your friend, He is your beloved. He is your all-in-all.” You know the verse, you have taught your children. (Tvameva mata……………tvameva sarvam mama deva deva) “You are my all in all.”
What is the point of this eternal, all-in-all relationship if He is not going to do anything about our suffering? Would a father in the material world just watch his own son suffering and say to him, “My child! This is your own karm, it is your problem!” and just sit back and watch silently. Would a father in the material world do this? Definitely not! Then how can we accept God as a loving father, someone we are so closely connected to, if all He does is take note of all our actions, dispenses the fruits accordingly and watches us suffer our own past actions and do nothing about it? Scriptures say He is a witness, He resides within you, He accompanies you life after life. (Svetasvataropanishad – 6/11) What is the point of accompanying us life after life and watching us? He does not take His gaze away from us for a fraction of a second. The answer is that He watches us constantly with the hope that we might turn around toward Him and surrender. He is waiting to grace us with His infinite divine bliss, and not only that, eternally free us from all the suffering that we are going through. The root cause of all our pain and suffering is alienation from God.
Do you know that a renowned psychologist (20th century), some of you may have heard of his name, Carl Jung. He diagnosed the sickness of man, the suffering to be due to this alienation from God. Man is sick because he has cut himself from the source and sustainer of life. The more we turn away from God, the more we will be restless and disturbed. Now, what does God do about this? Do you want to know?
The first thing that He does is at the beginning of every creation, He reveals spiritual knowledge and a code of conduct for us to follow through the Vedas. There is an elaborate account of the do’s and do not’s. This we have in not only what we call Sanatan Dharm but in every religion. Christianity has the Old Testament stating all the do’s and do not’s. The purpose of all this instruction and knowledge is that we make ourselves eligible to receive divine grace and get out of this bondage of karm forever.
Now obviously you would say that you don’t know anything about the instructions in Sanskrit – you have a lot of things to say about that – as I said, this talk would take days to give. But it doesn’t matter, I am coming to the point.
The next thing that God does is – send His Saints to us to inspire us, to guide us and give us a simplified version of all this spiritual knowledge. When we turn a deaf ear even to the Saints, then He (God) punishes us.
Just as there is a written law in the world. Disobedience of law results in punishment. Even a father in the material world punishes a son for being disobedient but that punishment is an expression of the love and care of this father towards the son, is it not? In the same way, when God punishes us it is not out of enmity, it is out of His love and grace. But unfortunately we do not understand that and we end up blaming Him.
Suppose in the material world a child goes to school and steals a pencil; he comes home and proudly tells his mother, “I have stolen a pencil” and she smiles at him and lets him go. What is going to happen? He is going to steal again and again and he may grow up to be a thief. So when he steals for the first time, the mother naturally will scold her child, “That is the wrong thing to do, don’t ever do that again!” And suppose the child does steal again, what is she going to do this time? She is going to punish the child severely because he has not listened to her the first time. Now, after the scolding and severe punishment, the child learns its lesson and does not steal again. But when did this happen? After the mother had scolded and punished the child. So is the mother the child’s enemy? Definitely not! The mother’s action is an expression of her love and care for the child. In the same way, when God punishes us for our wrong karm, it is only an overflowing of His grace and compassion for us. It is not punishment. We take it that way but it is wrong to do so.
There are courts, police and prisons in the world, aren’t there? These are there for maintaining law and order and punishing the wrong doers. Do you know how much public money goes into maintaining this structure? An enormous amount! And just suppose that for 24 hours, all this were shut down completely, what do you think would happen? The result would be disastrous; murders, rapes, theft, mugging and looting. Today, in spite of all this structure, there is so much crime so just imagine what would happen if they all were to be shut down.
So I am sure you can understand that even in the material world, punishment is for the betterment of man. It is to deter a person from committing a crime again. That is what it is for.
Now, if a person has committed a murder and he goes to the court himself and accepts his crime and asks for forgiveness, “Please, please forgive me. I promise that I will not commit another crime again if you forgive me. And should I commit the smallest of crimes, I am ready to undergo the worst punishment you can give me.” Will the court forgive him for his humility and his right resolution? The judge will say, “You have to go through the punishment. There is no pardon or concession. We will see next time.” But there will not be a next time because he will be hung before that.
Now let us come to the spiritual court. I was talking about the material court. There is a vast difference between the two. There is both justice and mercy in the spiritual court. The mercy that there is, is unimaginable. Suppose a person has committed not one but thousands of murders and he asks for forgiveness from the bottom of his heart, then what happens? He is not only forgiven for those thousand murders but at the same time, for his countless past sins. He is eternally freed from all suffering. This is the promise, the promise in a wonderful verse of the Bhagavad Gita (Chap 18, Verse 66):
“Arjun! Come and surrender to Me alone. I will liberate you eternally from all sins and liberate you.”
God cares for our betterment more than a material father. Whatever He does, it is only for our welfare and He hopes and expects that when we suffer in the world, we will turn to Him through surrender and He will then eternally free us from all bondage of karm and not only that, He will give us eternal, everlasting bliss. As I addressed you (at the beginning of my talk), ‘eternal seekers of divine bliss’, that is what we are searching for and nothing in this world has satisfied us till today.
Do you know there is an example, a unique example, of a lady named Kunti who asked Lord Krishna for a very strange favour. She asked for suffering! We would never dare or even dream to ask for such a thing. Do you want to know the reason? The reason is that she did not want to leave any room for pride and worldly attachment. When there was nobody she knew that He would be there. God, the all-powerful, all-knowing personality would be there all the time with her, through thick and thin.
(Bhagavad Puran 1-8-25, 1-8-26)
You will never understand that God is all you need until God is all you have.
That is why Paul Brunton, a great philosopher said, “The sufferers of today are the seekers of tomorrow.” Human suffering is not a sign of God’s anger with man, It is man’s ignorance of divine law. God brings you into hot water not to burn you but to cleanse you. Look at the difference. A thief holds a knife to kill. A doctor also holds a knife, but to cure. The purpose is cure. The main thing is the purpose. “How do you have your tea? Do you put it into hot water?” Yes, that is when the colour comes out. Do you know that a goldsmith puts gold into fire, why? To purify the gold. A diamond can never be polished without friction nor a man without trials. Failures are often better teachers than successes, remember that sometime in your life.
Listen to the words of the mother, “Be thankful for the ordeals, for they are the shortest way to the divine.”
There was once a blacksmith. Do you know what a blacksmith is? An iron monger. His trading is in iron. So this blacksmith had great faith in God but his life was full of ups and downs. You know your question, “Why do good people suffer?” He was asked the same question, “What’s the point of your belief and faith in God that you have to go through so much suffering? What is God doing about it?” The blacksmith smiled and said, “Look, can you see those bits of iron in that corner? You know, when I do my work of molding iron there are certain bits that do not mold at all, so what do I do? I just throw them to the corner as scarp. I do not want to be scrap for God to just throw me away. I am ready to be molded.” For molding, as I said, to polish a diamond it takes friction, so he has got that faith.
A writer named Henry Beecher wrote that troubles are often tools which God uses to fashion us for better things. Bitter people ask, “Why me?” Better people ask, “What do you want me to learn?” This earth is a school and we are here to learn lessons. Now what happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you, remember this.
We must learn to have an attitude of gratitude in life. If we change our attitude then God will change our life.
Remember one more important point. God and the Saints, both can only grace and love and they cannot do anything apart from this. If you see them in anger, there is grace behind it, just as father and mother in the world scold or punish a child only out of their care and love. This applies to God and the Saints all the time, to anything that they do. We are so fortunate we can do much more than that. We can love, we can hate, we can be angry, we can be mean, we can be jealous, but they cannot do anything apart from love and grace. Their every action is an act of grace. We may understand this or not but this is the supreme truth.
Once a couple happened to be on a honeymoon, they went for a cruise in the Mediterranean. The very next day there was a very bad storm, the sea became so rough that it appeared that the boat would capsize any minute. The man had belief in Allah and the lady did not. She cross- examined him angrily “You have so much faith and belief in Allah, why is this happening to us?” The man picked up a knife from the table nearby and held it before her as if he was going to kill her. She stood unperturbed. He asked “Aren’t you scared.” She said, “Look, I am not scared because I know that you love me so much, you cannot harm me at all.” This is a honeymoon I am talking about! Not later, anything can happen after that! Her husband then said, “My dear, this is exactly my case with Allah. These waves may be very dangerous but I have faith in Allah who is moving them. I believe He is kind and merciful and that is why I am not scared.”
So don’t be worried about whether God is on your side. He always is! Be concerned as to whether you are on His side. The words of Barbara Johnson might help you. “If you believe that all that comes to you, comes from the heavenly father, then suffering will begin to make a little sense. Not much, I admit but a little, and that is all that God needs to work in your life. A mustard seed of faith.”
I love the words of Kandy Ploughman, “Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.” Sardar Vallabhai Patel said, “One who has faith is never perturbed by the ups and downs of life, whereas one who is faithless becomes hapless and helpless.”
So the best attitude toward suffering – all pain and suffering – is to consider it as a pain of separation from God. Let me tell you a very appropriate story. I’m sure some of you must have read it. A man happened to be at a barber’s shop and it is usually a 10-15 minute job (having your hair done) He got into a conversation with the barber and they started discussing various subjects and then it came to God.
The barber said, “I don’t believe God exists.” The customer said, “What makes you think that?” “If God existed, there wouldn’t be so much sickness in the world, there wouldn’t be any abandoned children, there wouldn’t be pain and suffering at all.” The customer thought that there was no point in saying anything to this man as it would no doubt end in argument. So, he did not reply to this and after – he had his beard trimmed and his hair cut – he walked out.
The moment he walked out, he saw a man with long, dirty unkempt hair and a long beard. He walked back into the barbers shop and said, “I don’t think barbers exist!” “What are you saying? I am here! I am a barber and have just worked on you! How can you say that?” “Barbers don’t exist because if they did, there wouldn’t be this man standing here with long dirty hair and his beard all unkempt. The barber said, “Oh! Barbers do exist! That man is like that because he did not come to me.” “Splendid! God too exists. He exists and those who do not go to Him, who do not have faith, nor surrender to Him, then they will also be like this, thus will go through pain and suffering.
So He is bliss – you say God is love don’t you? He is bliss, He is love. If you do not go to the reservoir of bliss and love, (Taittiriyopanishad – 3/6) then you are bound to suffer.
It is only in human life – remember this important point – it is only in human life that we can rectify this error and turn to God in surrender. That is what all the scriptures unanimously advise us to do; surrender.
Surrender is not the best way to live it is the only way to live. Once you learn this truth then your life is going to change, your words are going to change. You are no longer going to say, “Oh God! I have a great problem!” Now you are going to say, “Hey problem, I have a great God!”
So let me end this talk with some beautiful words from our ancient scriptures, the Kathopanishad mantra 1/3/14, “Awake! Arise and set forth immediately to seek the company of Saints and attain your goal.
Boliye Vrindaban Bihari Lal Ki Jai!
I wish i was filthy rich so i can give a seriously generous donation for the research to find a cure for cancer because I’ve seen alot of people go through way too much…
Im still reading more and more about Multiple Myeloma and more about you too. I dont check my mails on weekends, only monday-friday, but this weekend i couldn’t stop thinking about what you’re going through. And really, the truth is…i have no idea, i can only try to imagine. But i forgot to mention in my comment last friday, that you appear to be handling everything with great strength and doing what your heart tells you, and that’s very much admirable.I’m still not comfortable writhing here, where the world can see, but hoping you read it anyways. I’ll say a prayer for you everyday. Hinduism is a great faith and miracles happen eveyday. I am a hindu, not very religious, but i have faith and i pray everyday. You seem to be fighter…keep it up 🙂
India is the one place I dreamed of going since i was a little girl and hope that i can go, give/do alot of charity work and find my roots before i die. Just to touch the water of the Ganges must be so heartfelt and amazing. Its so cool that you got to that.
………. kahit walang buhok maganda pa rin ah..
ibang klase ka talaga..
i could not stop thinking about you, dont know why.. i just wish you to be healthy always…
god bless..
VENEZUELA, 15/03/2010, 9:35AM. GOOD MORNING DEAR MS RAY.
I want to tell you about Dr Jose Gregorio Hernandez
He has made so many miracles…. I just pray to him to make one more… To get hapiness for you Lisa and hopes, fe and peace in your heart. Theres is so many people with Good physical health, but with a huge cancer in there spirit and soul…. that is the worse thing that can happen to a person…
I live just 15 minutes from Isnotu… where he was born. It is a pretty small town. There is a Priest, his name is Jesus Emiro Suarez, he is a good friend of mine and my family…and now he is in charge of the beatification´s process.
I told him about what Lisa Ray is going thru and he said to me: lets pray for her every sunday´s ceremony, I am pretty sure Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez will visit her soon…
Please read this: “and all your fans too…”
JOSE GREGORIO HERNANDEZ: Venezuelan physician. Born in Isnotú, Trujillo State, Venezuela (October 25, 1864 – June 29, 1919). He graduated as a medical doctor in the Universidad Central de Venezuela, in Caracas. Dedicated himself to teaching, medicine, and religious practice. He studied at the Monastery of Lucca in Italy for ten months, he enrolled at the Latin American Pío School of Rome to continue the priestly career, but had to return to Venezuela for health reasons.
Dr. Hernández treated the poor for free and even bought them medicines with his own money. One day, while bringing medicine to the home of one of his patients in Caracas, Hernández was struck by a car and killed. After his life, the legend of Dr. Hernández began to grow in Venezuela.
People around the country started claiming to have been granted miracles after praying to him. At present, Dr. Hernandez is commonly invoked as “José Gregorio” by both doctors and patients for healing purposes. He is also called upon for protection during overland journeys. Eventually, his name became known all over Latin America and Spain.
In 1949, Venezuelan Catholic Church officials began the process that would lead the beatification of Dr. Hernández. The process of his canonization commenced during the Vatican I , which had granted him the title of «Venerable» in 1985. His remains are housed in the Holy Church of La Candelaria in Caracas, Venezuela.
take care…. love ya…
Hi Lisa – good morning – it’s Monday morning in Belize C.A. After really reading your blog this morning, I write with mixed feelings. This sounds like a trip to the core – like a rebirth even- but for some reason you sound sad. I understand.
Good morning Lisa,
I felt it.
Deep down in your writing.
I could visualize the moment Mr. Ray and you sat by the side of the Ganges.
“The waters cleanse it all away.”
I miss my mom and dad.
LOVE keeps us alive.
Blessings,
u.
Hi Lisa,
have you ever thought about writing a book?
You are a amazing writer…!
think about it!
Good to have news about you!
Never stop fighting!
Never stop writing!
Good vibes from Brazil!
Lara
Hi Lisa
I am sad to hear about your current condition. But am inspired by your bravery and willingness to share your experiences with us.
I highly recommend saving a cow/bull from a slaughter house. You will be able to do it quite cheaply in India. You just need to ensure it is taken care of by someone who will not sell it again for meat. The good karma you gain from this will help immensely. I know as I have a family friend that was on death bed and recovered miraculously. He lived for a good many years and died of old age. So did the cow. Your dad should be able to take care of this.
I wish you all the best. I just watched Water on BBC4 yesterday and you were amazing.
Sincerely
M
Lisa I am very happy to see that you turned to writing in his Blog, so we have news like this voce.Gostei when you talked about Dr.Berenson, I know all his work, I’ve had the privilege of hearing him on some of his lectures on ancologia is a really special human being, we physicians usually devote to an ideal of improvement for humanity, and can say without modesty I also didico children as a pediatrician, they are all my children, I am a mother looking for a boy 15 years and a beautiful 11 year old girl, and I still be the mother of all people, especially those who are there waiting for a cure or the research that majorities of both delay times, that much is not enough to esperar.Fico Dr.Berenson happy to have with one dedicated to Ancologia me mirror often in articles that he writes, I read everything carefully, because I thirst to know everything and also pass through all of my conhecimentos.Tenho sure that other lives have been medication as I am today, still giving us news of you, I know that many here in Brazil accompanies you through your Bolg, has an excellent health, that’s what matters, the rest runs ago, affectionate hugs Dra.Luzimar
TO: Lisa Rani Ray…….My Virtuous One,
Its truly an act of deep seated faith and love to have your Dad with you on this inspirationel journey through India and environs…….God Bless you, Sir, Mr.Salil !!!!!!!
Tears welled up in my eyes as I read of his faith at the Ganges, ” Touching the water together and then touching the crown of your head with it” !!!!!!
Your are an inspiration to me to strenghten my Faith and Im sure to all who truly care for you. Thank you Lisa.
You are and always will be the same, The HEART did not change in all these months of ongoing treatment and therapy. The look may be a bit different but we Love you all the same and even more now.
Keep up with your faith and beliefs and we are walking this journey with you , all the way because you have made it possible now with the frequent blogs. Thank you , it really does mean a whole lot to us , your dedicated and loyal friends.
Good luck and speedy recovery to Bobcat so that he can join you in this beautiful journey!!!!!
God Bless You “dah-ling”!
rosemarieramnarine@yahoo.com
All my love
লিসা…
ভালো আছি ভালো থেক, আকাশের ঠিকানায় চিটি লিখ
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, your sadness and your hope.
Keep fighting Lisa..
And with so many ppl praying for you how can God not listen..
You’ll always be with us brightening our lives
ALTAZOR CANTO II (vICENTE HUIDOBRO, CHILE)
Mujer el mundo está amueblado por tus ojos
Se hace más alto el cielo en tu presencia
La tierra se prolonga de rosa en rosa
Y el aire se prolonga de paloma en paloma
Al irte dejas una estrella en tu sitio
Dejas caer tus luces como el barco que pasa
Mientras te sigue mi canto embrujado
Como una serpiente fiel y melancólica
Y tú vuelves la cabeza detrás de algún astro
¿Qué combate se libra en el espacio?
Esas lanzas de luz entre planetas
Reflejo de armaduras despiadadas
¿Qué estrella sanguinaria no quiere ceder el paso?
En dónde estás triste noctámbula
Dadora de infinito
Que pasea en el bosque de los sueños
Heme aquí perdido entre mares desiertos
Solo como la pluma que se cae de un pájaro en la noche
Heme aquí en una torre de frío
Abrigado del recuerdo de tus labios marítimos
Del recuerdo de tus complacencias y de tu cabellera
Luminosa y desatada como los ríos de montaña
¿Irías a ser ciega que Dios te dio esas manos?
Te pregunto otra vez
El arco de tus cejas tendido para las armas de los ojos
En la ofensiva alada vencedora segura con orgullos de flor Te hablan por mí las piedras aporreadas
Te hablan por mí las olas de pájaros sin cielo
Te habla por mí el color de los paisajes sin viento
Te habla por mí el rebaño de ovejas taciturnas
Dormido en tu memoria
Te habla por mí el arroyo descubierto
La yerba sobreviviente atada a la aventura
Aventura de luz y sangre de horizonte
Sin más abrigo que una flor que se apaga
Si hay un poco de viento
Las llanuras se pierden bajo tu gracia frágil
Se pierde el mundo bajo tu andar visible
Pues todo es artificio cuando tú te presentas
Con tu luz peligrosa
Inocente armonía sin fatiga ni olvido
Elemento de lágrima que rueda hacia adentro
Construido de miedo altivo y de silencio
Haces dudar al tiempo
Y al cielo con instintos de infinito
Lejos de ti todo es mortal
Lanzas la agonía por la tierra humillada de noches
Sólo lo que piensa en ti tiene sabor a eternidad
He aquí tu estrella que pasa
Con tu respiración de fatigas lejanas
Con tus gestos y tu modo de andar
Con el espacio magnetizado que te saluda
Que nos separa con leguas de noche
Sin embargo te advierto que estamos cosidos
A la misma estrella
Estamos cosidos por la misma música tendida
De uno a otro
Por la misma sombra gigante agitada como árbol
Seamos ese pedazo de cielo
Ese trozo en que pasa la aventura misteriosa
La aventura del planeta que estalla en pétalos de sueño
En vano tratarías de evadirte de mi voz
Y de saltar los muros de mis alabanzas
Estamos cosidos por la misma estrella
Estás atada al ruiseñor de las lunas
Que tiene un ritual sagrado en la garganta
Qué me importan los signos de la noche
Y la raíz y el eco funerario que tengan en mi pecho
Qué me importa el enigma luminoso
Los emblemas que alumbran el azar Y esas islas que viajan por el caos sin destino a mis ojos
Qué me importa ese miedo de flor en el vacío
Qué me importa el nombre de la nada
El nombre del desierto infinito
O de la voluntad o del azar que representan
Y si en ese desierto cada estrella es un deseo de oasis
O banderas de presagio y de muerte
Tengo una atmósfera propia en tu aliento
La fabulosa seguridad de tu mirada con sus constelaciones íntimas
Con su propio lenguaje de semilla
Tu frente luminosa como un anillo de Dios
Más firme que todo en la flora del cielo
Sin torbellinos de universo que se encabrita
Como un caballo a causa de su sombra en el aire
Te pregunto otra vez
¿Irías a ser muda que Dios te dio esos ojos?
Tengo esa voz tuya para toda defensa
Esa voz que sale de ti en latidos de corazón
Esa voz en que cae la eternidad
Y se rompe en pedazos de esferas fosforescentes
¿Qué sería la vida si no hubieras nacido?
Un cometa sin manto muriéndose de frío
Te hallé como una lágrima en un libro olvidado
Con tu nombre sensible desde antes en mi pecho
Tu nombre hecho del ruido de palomas que se vuelan
Traes en ti el recuerdo de otras vidas más altas
De un Dios encontrado en alguna parte
Y al fondo de ti misma recuerdas que eras tú
El pájaro de antaño en la clave del poeta
Sueño en un sueño sumergido
La cabellera que se ata hace el día
La cabellera al desatarse hace la noche
La vida se contempla en el olvido
Sólo viven tus ojos en el mundo
El único sistema planetario sin fatiga
Serena piel anclada en las alturas
Ajena a toda red y estratagema
En su fuerza de luz ensimismada
Detrás de ti la vida siente miedo
Porque eres la profundidad de toda cosa
El mundo deviene majestuoso cuando pasas
Se oyen caer lágrimas del cielo
Y borras en el alma adormecida
La amargura de ser vivo
Se hace liviano el orbe en las espaldas
Mí alegría es oír el ruido del viento en tus cabellos
(Reconozco ese ruido desde lejos
Cuando las barcas zozobran y el río arrastra troncos de árbol
Eres una lámpara de carne en la tormenta
Con los cabellos a todo viento Tus cabellos donde el sol va a buscar sus mejores sueños
Mi alegría es mirarte solitaria en el diván del mundo
Como la mano de una princesa soñolienta
Con tus ojos que evocan un piano de olores
Una bebida de paroxismos
Una flor que está dejando de perfumar
Tus ojos hipnotizan la soledad
Como la rueda que sigue girando después de la catástrofe
Mi alegría es mirarte cuando escuchas
Ese rayo de luz que camina hacia el fondo del agua
Y te quedas suspensa largo rato
Tantas estrellas pasadas por el harnero del mar
Nada tiene entonces semejante emoción
Ni un mástil pidiendo viento
Ni un aeroplano ciego palpando el infinito
Ni la paloma demacrada dormida sobre un lamento
Ni el arcoiris con las alas selladas
Más bello que la parábola de un verso
La parábola tendida en puente nocturno de alma a alma
Nacida en todos los sitios donde pongo los ojos
Con la cabeza levantada
Y todo el cabello al viento
Eres más hermosa que el relincho de un potro en la montaña
Que la sirena de un barco que deja escapar toda su alma
Que un faro en la neblina buscando a quien salvar
Eres más hermosa que la golondrina atravesada
por el viento
Eres el ruido del mar en verano
Eres el ruido de una calle populosa llena de
admiración
Mi gloria está en tus ojos
Vestida del lujo de tus ojos y de su brillo interno
Estoy sentado en el rincón más sensible de tu
mirada
Bajo el silencio estático de inmóviles pestañas
Viene saliendo un augurio del fondo de tus ojos
Y un viento de océano ondula tus pupilas
Nada se compara a esa leyenda de semillas que
deja tu presencia
A esa voz que busca un astro muerto que volver a
la vida
Tu voz hace un imperio en el espacio
Y esa mano que se levanta en ti como si fuera a
colgar soles en el aire
Y ese mirar que escribe mundos en el infinito
Y esa cabeza que se dobla para escuchar un mur-
mullo en la eternidad
Y ese pie que es la fiesta de los caminos
encadenados
Y esos párpados donde vienen a vararse las centellas del éter
Y ese beso que hincha la proa de tus labios
Y esa sonrisa como un estandarte al frente de tu vida
Y ese secreto que dirige las mareas de tu pecho
Dormido a la sombra de tus senos
Si tú murieras
Las estrellas a pesar de su lámpara encendida
Perderían el camino
¿Qué sería del universo?
Dearest Lisa,
I pray that serenity always follow you wherever you tread and may you continuously see things that make your Heart break with so much beauty.
I want to pass this message to you that my friend Van gave to me:
“Better to enlarge your bag, to make room for more blessings! May your dreams ache to come out of you.”
With that, be sure to always carry that invisible expandable bag along with you ok.
Which I can attest do happen… because the wonder of the seemingly elusive thing for me just happened… which made me all the more Believe that ‘Something Glorious’ is always happening around the corner and is inching its way to us.
Thank you for always letting us know about your journeys and for sharing your insights.
Please do continue writing and twitting about your voyages, sojourns and whatever Life encounters that you want to share… even the silly ones for they make us seriously laugh!
I can say this with such certainty that many of us here are constantly touched by your story in profound ways and it also adds happiness to our days. It truly does… more than you know.
Personally, you deeply enriched my Soul and you add to the Amazing-ness of OUR Universe.
I ask God to continually look after you and your love ones as well. I’m sure that the Higher Forces are with you EVERY step of the way.
I wish you unwavering Stillness and Peace,
–Nerissa
Shalom.
This made my eyes well up with tears… it’s so simple and poignant. It won an Academy Award and deservingly so.
I hate to admit it but it made me all the more feel the absentee ways of my dad… but Cest la vie…
Beauty. Jewels
p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_MEcnhq-YQ&feature=fvw
Hi Lisa,
I loved you in Bollywood Hollywood. Cant ever stop listening to rang rang mere track. Take care of yourself.
You are in my prayers,
Priya
Hi Nerrisa,
Love is so simple, strip down to the core, the vibration between this mass human network is remarkable.
I admire this highly acclaimed animation as mush as you do, the immense love and longing can be conveyed with delicacy though the simplicity of lines and shadows, the unspeakable is well spoken through gentle gazes and touches, me, as an individual is the accidental stranger stumbling into the misty forest with the sweet scent of morning dews, exploring and following the path that Lisa had opened up and walked upon.
Lisa’s blog is a tangible testimony that she’s not only a unique writer that read moments of life with integrity and honesty, she has the power to see, sense and say so frankly about celebration of life, triggering reader’s emotional responses, is simply INSPIRING.
Oh yes, the hidden wits and wacky sense of humor in Lisa’s blog can never get missed, they are always good kick in the butt and make my day ;-D
Peace n Love
u.
Venezuela, 16/03/2010, 2:50am. Good morning dear Mr Ray. I am sure you are almost waking up in India… Here not yet. My baby is not feeling very well (what a night I am having), so I might not have time later to writte and wish you a good day as always.. Take care… Hugs
Venezuela, 16/03/2010, 2:50am. Good morning dear Ms Ray. I am sure you are waking up in India, here not yet. My baby is not feeling very well (what a night I am having), so I might not have time later to writte and wish you a wonderful day as always. Take care, hugs.
TAKE CARE PRINCESS
NEVER STOP FIGHTING
NEVER LET GO OF HOPE
I WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT YOU
LOVE YOU, MISS YOU
她能看懂汉语吗?真希望她能看得懂.
Hey u,
I resonate with your every word…
With regards to the lyrical quality of this short-film which speaks volumes about the human condition without uttering a single word…
About how this blog of Lisa and how Lisa herself elicits certain emotions within us because her experiences strike a chord in all of us albeit we come from different walks of Life…
I agree as well that Love is very simple down to its very core… it’s only our reasons and perspectives that makes it complicated.
I, for one, am guilty of that… but hey, all of us are continuous work in progress and I sure am traversing out of ‘life stuff purgatory’!!
You have no idea what you have unleashed when you talked about Lisa’s writing… like you and everyone one here, I relish almost every word she writes and gamut of feelings sometimes just uncontrollably pour out…
By the way, I love the way you write as well. It’s novel like and pure of poetic touches. KUDOS!!
May you have more of those lingering scents to add to your day,
–NP
Hi Lisa,
Sorry it’s me again… not meaning to spam on your board though…
It’s just that U (the lovely person who posted the “Father and Daughter” short-film) got me so revved up about your writing!
I don’t know if you have read our past letters for you… especially the ones in your “Resolution 2010” post…
Yes, those 900plus crazy messages and outpouring of Unconditional Love & Support that we have for you during your month long hiatus.
I wrote a poem for you before about “Your Writing”…
I am reposting it again in here because I can’t help it when you write about the tempestuous madness and sheer beauty of Life!!
Without you knowing it, you just simply pluck out some unsaid emotions in me and give it its necessary release…
For that, THANK YOU.
I immensely love reading and with all honesty, You are one of those Writers who make me savor the fragrance of insights and wisdom.
Your writing is so Powerful and sometimes soul-tearing!!
It breaks me, it unpeels me and it makes me see myself down to my very core…
Deeply Grateful,
–Nerissa
Here is that poem:
Your Writing…
Your writing is our direct portal to your soul
Our glimpse of your overwhelming beauty
It enriches, illuminates and stirs our marrows
Changing the views of our mind and emotions
Your gut-wrenching honesty strips my soul naked
Forcing me to look beyond what is and accept
In every way I feel your Enlighten Spirit
Pouring its wonder in my veins and essence
Your words are endless source of wisdom
Pure, Passionate and never preachy
There is this poetic tinged reality
In your words that are heartbreaking and endearing
In all the dead seriousness of your plight
You always manage to pluck humor out of it
Your writings are downright funny and wickedly witty
Stamped with your trademark of Yellow passion
The way you use pop-culture and literary references
The way you swirl and curl words to get your point across
How your quill weaves its therapeutic magic for you
Also uplift and heal the wounded part of our soul
In your writing, I felt that my old pains mended
As if the veil that hung heavy was lifted
It made me more open, lighter and more honest
My soul bathes in your strength and absorbs your beauty
I am always invigorated whenever I will read your writings
I love seeing the world from your eyes and perspective
I feel that I am inhaling Life & Love deeply
You ALWAYS make me Smile and I relish your words immensely
The humanity of your gift of gab in writing transfuse understanding
It’s been one of your armor and ally in your journey
Giving you and us the transcending powers of words
It heals, it connects and makes us all see what is beyond the gap
In your writing, we see you for what you are and more
The rippling effects of your thoughts and emotions
The ever-flowing heartbeat of your honesty
Spills its way to the deepest part of our blood stream
In this romanticized appreciation of your writing
Sincerity is its truest form and Love is its core
I offer these Salutations and Gratitude
For sharing your world through your writing
–NP
I’ve been wanting to hear about your trip to India. It’s such a sacred place. Thank you for the pictures of the Ganges, so beautiful. I have friends in India now at the Kumbha Mela.
Yours is quite the journey yet you navigate your path with such grace. That is commendable and inspirational.
I could almost feel the droplets of water falling on my own crown from your father’s fingers. Such is the beauty of your words.
My prayers are always with you.
Hi i’m really interested in reading ur writing and knowin ur social activies…. i really hope that u will be sucessfull in ur life!!
Good luck
My Dearest Lisa
please do me a favour,before u pass away please tell me who r u dating these days ?
p.s a request from your long time fan.
Give us a photo of yourself we want to see you and your “pilgrim fuzz” ;o)
Well hi Lisa, from an old actor teacher. Just happened to catch “Water” for the first time last night and googled you later. What can I say? What an extraordinary vital, witty, exhilaratingly alive blog you write. Teachers are allowed to be in awe of their former students. Fond memories of the sexiest, funniest Kate and Petruchio that the pairing of you and Antonia Schnauber made.
Good luck, my dear,
Kim
Excuse me – nobody is passing away in this blog – we are full of life and love.
I AGREE WITH AMANDA….SHE IS RIGHT… PLEASE PEOPLE BEHAVE…… LOVE AND PEACE TO EVERYONE.
Habibti,
Good day for you!! 🙂
I hope you are enjoying your holidays in Delhi.
Day by day. New life.
Lisa 2.0. Oui!! 🙂 🙂
Best wishes for you, always,
Ximena. 🙂 🙂
hey raj, how rude of you,,i wish lisa come back healthy and more beautiful, as i do believe in miracles…i pray for you lisaaaa…
she is such a beauty, dont give up lisa, enjoy ur lifeeeee ahead .
this is the first time im writing down for any person,i always heard the songs from movie kasoor.. its unbelievable, i hope miracle happen..i will be ur one of the admirer
My Dearest Lisa
Life has not played upon me a cruel joke to afflict you with an incurable disease.But on the passing I feel as if the chance is not given enough chance to take its own course and someone upon the heavens have spoiled my party to have you not a victim of circumstance but a victim of its own device.
I understand the patient being a doctor. Till the end I fight with all mighty for my patients. NEVER SAY NO & NEVER LOOSE HOPE.
I can not say more than this.
Have wonderful day and time always.
Dear Lisa,
I remember during a live and interactive chat with fans that was hosted by Redcliff.com in Bombay on 10 Jan 2001, when you were often asked about your private life either intentionally or not, here is one of your responses I adored:
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AlokG :
One thing i want to tell u is , U r such a beautiful girl & what r u doing in this big & bad media world. I say u must leave this rude & careless people who un-necassary disturbs u’r personal life . What do u say ?
Ms Lisa Ray :
My experience has been that if one conducts oneself with integrity and dignity and in a mature fashion, there is no chance for any misbehavior. You have to be strong to be in this business and i have matured tremendously and learned a lot. The only thing I still hate is unnecessary attention on my private life, because I am a very private person.
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“personal boundaries are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them”
It’s absolutely delightful to witness such wisdom cherished and resonated by the majority of readers here.
Peace n Love
u.
Hello Nerissa
What a wonderful poem so magically written and sharing wholeheartedly in this mini universe created inside Lisa’s blog. The song by Louis Armstrong would be my humble acknowledgment of your passion and generosity, mucha gracias!
Peace n Love
u.
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Hope above references will help you.
Have wonderful time always.
HOPE IS THE KEY WORD OF ALL MEDICOS. WE ONLY HOPE AND ALL MIGHTY RULES.
hi liza,
what do i say..well, i actually grew up with you, atleast vitually!! because, im 26 and i think i was in my teens when i actually started watching mtv’s and v channels and one of the most recognisable memories were that of your old music videos..iam largely impressed by the articles you wrote and less than 15 minutes ago, i added you to my twitter and here iam commenting on your article
You are a wonderful human being, a very brave person and i want you to know that we all love you so much and there is sincere wishes coming for you..
in the mean time enjoy life
i did see you program on Ndtv. it was good to see you after a long time
God bless you
keep in touch
omg what are you thinking raj,seriously.
I have solution for cancer. can you trust me. contact me soon.
Hope you will make to LA for the festival, beautiful! Have fun recording the audio book!
HELLO MY EMERALD-EYED !!
A new and a good life start !!! congratulations!!!
I appreciate you my imagine friend.other than your art you prove your power.Not to us dont misunderstand you prove yourself. this is very important for to love yourself.If you love yourself everything be easy and positive for all of us.
You are young but you learn a lot of thing about what is value for life.Health,peace,insurance,love,frienship,family,money,faithe.t.c….which one important than the other Ms. Lisa Ray? I think, you have to learn these to us 🙂 Maybe we live very good life but we never to tell “thanks”.
the other day, I went to the bigisland in my city by ferry.What is love ? What is the naturalness ? What does it mean to show love?
I saw these very well…Why?
If I love a person I always say”I love you” friend,my husband,doughters no mather.This is my personality and my mother same with me.The skin contact is very important for me.But I see some people can not show their love.This is very big failure for our life and our happiness.I think of course…
For big love, money or life difficulties may be obstacle I dont know.
When I was the ferry.I saw very crowded gypsy family.Woman’s have 2 or 3 childrens and one more in their abdomen.And all women and all babies are smiling.I was in shock! They havent got enough money for living.But their face always smiling.After I looked the other people.
all face woe:-( someone is sleeping,someone on the phone discussing,two friends reading their books.anyone smile.
I like the watch the people.I was sorry and angry.Why do not laugh at anyone’s face?. All of them have very very big promlems? no I dont think so.Because we dont know how can be happy and what is the meaning the happiness. Because some people did not see real pain.I was with my best friend.I talked her she looked my eyes and she said “You look yourself Sinem. dont see the others” but how can I do this I am living with together with their in same country.And I changed my seat I went next the happy family.I love they because of this.they are always positive.
I dont know I am working orphanage because of this maybe I am a little delicate about this subject.
Maybe you can help to us What is the happiness? What is the best important thing in our life? What can we do?
With this blog you took very big mission dear Lisa Ray.Your work is difficult 🙂 I think in this situation you can give much advice instead of to take:-) You know very much thing.I know we have different experiences for example I have much experince about the health about the family(maybe you remember or not I dont know)…I learn these…
“we should not live unhappiness in the happiness” and we have to say “thanks” for our each day.and we have to learn “to love” dear Lisa Ray.
I almost forget “I love all alive” and “I LOVE YOU WITH ALTHOUGH”
Do you remember “ALTHOUGH LOVE” Maybe The largest famine in the world I think.
You dont know me “although this I love you”
I or you never talk each other but “although this I love you”.
Maybe you like me or maybe you hate me but “although this I love you.”
I never see your eyes or I can never talk with you but “although this I love you”.
I learn this I know to love “although”
I am kissing from your little red dot in your right hand with my all compassion.
greetings and regards…
LISA=DOĞA
Hi mam, m a big big fan of urs since i watched aafreen aafreen a nusrat fateh ali khan’s music video. after that kasoor etc etc its a really long list since m following u as my fav actress. The pics of ganga ji u posted r fab. Main gangaji nahi ja sakti coz of some reasons par apke pics ki wajah se maine darshan kar liye. Here in india v r celebrating navratri nd i m fasting for 9 days. I wish kali maa will bless u. Take care.
My name is Chandni verma nd i m 21 years old fem India. I want u to know i always had Kalpana chawla as my inspiration (she was an astronaut who lost her life in coloumbia space shuttle crash) know what now i have 1 more thats u. I have tuberculosis and when i was diagnosed with it i reacted “why me” i was so upset. And 1 day i hurd of the situation u r suffering from and as i wrote b4 u r my fav actress i was upset even more and than i came across ur blog i red it, it changed my mind and now m a more of a positive person and all my negative thoughts are vanished and now when problems come i say “Try Me”. All i wanna say to u is THANK U. My mom says you r a buzy person you’ll not reply me
i say- she’ll reply me its all about my faith in u. Nd i’ll keep my faith even if u dont reply me.
THANK U MAM
hey…. just visiting your blog make sure your doin ok..
how do you do that???? you made me fell inlove with you by the end of the movie..??? its like magic…..
i dont know if its your eyes, your charm, there’s just somethin in there that separate you from others…
Lisa,
I too was in Rishikesh a little less than a year ago. My impression of Rishikesh (before I actually saw it) was that of a town filled with the natural beauty of the Himalayas and the spiritual enlightenment of the saints. When I actually saw it, I was completely disappointed. None of the glory of the Himalayas (it was more like Lonavla – nice but not magnificent) and instead of enlightenment, the town was enmeshed in rituals – no sign of peace, no love, no compassion and no wisdom to be seen in the eyes of the tonsured “saints” or anyone there- maybe my vision was myopic. No experience of anything higher to be remotely had there. Atleast not for me. But the good thing is that sometimes when one door closes, another opens. I gave up on the efficacy of places to elevate me and came up with what is most obvious –
http://www.touchtheearthranch.com/buddhastories.htm
The “Butter and Stones” story is what I found/rediscovered. Reproduced here for convenience, with my learning from it at the end of the story:
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Butter and Stones
At the time, priests of a religion were charging money for a ritual prayer that promised to release a dead relative’s soul from hell so he could go to heaven. At one point in the prayer they struck an urn full of stones with a ritual hammer. If the urn broke, and the stones were released, it was a sign that the soul was also released, according to their teaching. Of course, the brittle clay could not withstand the blow of the heavy metal hammer.
A young man, distraught over his uncle’s death, went to the Buddha, believing that the Buddha’s teaching was a newer, greater form of religion, and asked him for a ritual which would release his uncle’s soul. The Buddha told him to obtain two of the ritual urns from the priests, and fill one with butter and and one with stones.
The young man, believing he was about to get a more powerful ritual, was very happy and did as the Buddha said. When he returned, the Buddha told him to place the urns carefully in the river, so that the rim of the urn was just below the surface. Then he instructed him to recite the usual prayer of the priests, and strike both urns under the water with the hammer, at the usual point in the prayer, then come back and describe what happened.
The young man, very excited to be the first person to be given this wonderful new ritual, more effective than the old, did exactly as he was told. On his return, the Buddha asked him to describe what he saw. The young man replied “I saw nothing unusual. When I smashed the urns, the stones sank to the bottom of the river and the butter was washed away on the surface of the river.”
The Buddha said “Then you must ask your priests to pray that the butter will sink and the stones will float to the surface!” The young man, shocked by the obvious ridiculousness of this request said “But no matter how much the priests pray, the stones will never float and the butter will not sink.”
The Buddha replied, “Exactly so. And, it is the same with your uncle. Whatever good, loving actions he has done during his life will make him rise towards heaven, and whatever bad, selfish actions he has done will make him sink towards hell. And there is not a thing that all the prayers and rituals of the priests can do to alter even a tiny part of the results of his actions!”
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You wrote, “The waters cleanse it all away. It is said.” I think it does not. At all. This thought opens the door…the same old door but with a new perspective this time…the same old thing that we have been told as kids but this time with I understand, almost realize, with force –
“Beings are owners of karmas, student, heirs of karmas, they have karmas as their progenitor, karmas as their kin, karmas as their homing-place. It is karmas that differentiate beings according to inferiority and superiority,” said the Buddha.”
No chance of any cleansing anything with sacred rivers. Rivers are not sacred. Actions are. To me the message is liberating. And leads me to life directly and teaches me how to live it. I find it hard to change because my baggage is heavy but atleast my intended path is clear. Never been this way before.
With all your blessings, you have the opportunity of a lifetime. May the force be with you.
I cannot wait to read more on your gathering place of the Rishis..
Btw, your writing is getting more and more poetic. I really like it.
Take care,
SAndeep
Here are some words..
You touch heart
You touch soul,
We all are with you
those love you most!
your have courage
which show the path (to others)
the things keep you fighting
that I know its your heart
you will not stop
you will be moving on
you have life
with full of smile
world will come to your feet
with lots of love and pride.
we hear you(by blog) and God is hearing us(by our pray),
So you will be alright!!
Ameen !!
Hey u,
This is very sweet and funny, Thanks a biggie!
You hit the nail with this one. I happen to like Louis Armstrong with this song and as well as his rendition of La Vie en Rose and Moon River.
May heartfelt smiles linger in your soul in this magical world of ours 🙂 😉
–NP
I’ve sent u mails on facebook, but now im not too certain if it’s you or someone claiming to be you. Do you accept people as friends or just as fans? I know you probably get thousands of these kind of mails. Was just wondering if im sending stuff to someone else. Will very much appreciate knowing. Hope you’re doing ok. Take good care of yourself.
Hello Dear Lisa:
I stumbled upon your blog today by chance…although I don’t believe anything is ever truly ‘chance’
I was telling my Kashmiri friend about the movie Bollywood Hollywood, which he had not heard of, and promised him I would send him a link.
I wanted to say just how much I appreciate you candor in your blog. It seems there are many of us going through radical changes in the journey of life these past few years.
I too have had many a challenge – I met the love of my life and lost him & our unborn child to a lightning strike & intense grief. Now I am fighting some bizarre illness…doctors don’t seem to know anything, so I am relying on the wisdom of traditional medicines like ayurveda and TCM, not knowing what will be the outcome.
YET, there is no longer this struggle in life…there is a full acceptance of what is…whatever time we have here is the time we have, so I make use of it as best I can and continue on with this life, and in it I find so much beauty and so much love.
How amazing such a short period of time changes our perspective on so much.
Thank you so much for sharing, for being Lisa Ray and no one else.
I wish you peace, love & continued healing on your journey.
Light & Love
Diane
you may have your good intentions but there are boundaries we don’t cross… Please respect it.
당신의 영화를 보고 당신이 너무 좋아졌습니다..
최근에야..당신을 알았지만..
당신이 아픈것을 알고..너무나 슬펐지만.. 잘 이겨내는 모습에 감동
했어요..!
언제나 행복하길 바래요~
My Dearest Lisa
I went to see a film called “A single man” at westdale theatre Hamilton.It is about how intellect mishandles women and manhandles men.If horses were the wishes never leave these rude and careless people.About a private life,a portrait is sufficient than not to tell how r u ?
p.s i am not interested in anyone’s dating but the dates that fly by the calendar as if miss lisa was here yesterday
Raj,
I can’t even believe how disrespectful and rude this comment is.
I’ve also read the other comments that you’ve left on this blog, and they are completely irrational and absurd. You must be a severely mentally disturbed person with no sense of empathy or even common sense. Please do us all a favor, and leave your psychotic thoughts to yourself.
Venezuela, 17/03/2010, 3:45pm. Hello my dear Ms Ray. How are you feeling today? Hope better than yesterday, better than ever… Wish you the best.. Sending you my best thoughts and energies… Kisses.
I love you…
I know its hard but yet strong…
Some days hard and some days like you are perfectly fit and ready to win…
No matter how, it`s u against it…one n only u…
I want you to win coz I lost my mother not long ago…
Do it more for the cure than yourself….
Smile smile smile n lots of smile n fun n happiness
Ting ting….
love yaaaaaa…muahhh
— In what happiness on the earth?
In knowledge. In art and in job, in its achievement. Learning art in itself, you learn the nature, world life, meaning of the life, you learn soul – talent! Above this happiness isn’t present.
And success? Caducity.
Constantin Stanislavski
— В чём счастье на земле?
В познании. В искусстве и в работе, в достижение его. Познавая искусство в себе, познаешь природу, жизнь мира, смысл жизни, познаешь душу – талант! Выше этого счастья нет.
А успех? Бренность.
Константин Сергеевич Станиславский
To live — means to operate.
Learn to listen, understand and love the severe truth about itself.
Constantin Stanislavski
Жить —значит действовать.
Учитесь слушать, понимать и любить жестокую правду о себе.
Константин Сергеевич Станиславский
Dear Lisa,
So you went on a pilgrimage to India! Good to hear that you had a safe trip. I hope you received spiritual peace and contentment in your heart, mind and soul. Earlier, I had been wondering where were you.
I thought you were busy resting inbetween trips to the hospital. After checking for quite a while and no news from you, I surfed on the net and landed at Amitabh Bachchan’s blog. He is a great writer with a superb command of english and the usage of words. You write well too! I think, you should be a freelance writer or a journalist with The Toronto Star, CTV or CBC. I’d hire you if I were in a position to.
Keep in touch. Take good care of self and rest well. Also, keep up the fire in you and let it shine!
God bless. Till then.
(BTW – pls post your local address, if you can. Thanks)
Jenny in Toronto.
“Therefore he said, “Pick it up for yourself.” So he reached out his hand and took it.”
II Kings 6 : 7 (New King James Version)
We read in verses 1-2 , “And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “See now, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us. “Please let us go to the Jordan, and let every man take a beam from there, and let us make there a place where we may dwell.” So he answered, “Go.””
The one of them requested Elisha to come with them and Elisha consented. They all reached Jordan and began to cut trees. But as one was cutting down a tree the iron ax head fell into the water. And he cried out saying “Alas, master ! For it was borrowed.” We read in verses 6-7 , “So the man of God said, ”Where did it fall?” And he showed him the place. So he cut off a stick, and threw it in there; and he made the iron float. Therefore he said, “Pick it up for yourself.” So he reached out his hand and took it.”
A solid piece of iron fell into the water. A stick was thrown into the water . The iron came up and floated. Logical ? No ! How did it happen ? That’s God. His ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours.
We see in verse 7 that Elisha said to the man ‘Pick it up for yourself’ and so the man reached out his hand and took it.
Our God is a miracle working God. No doubts there. What stops us from getting it ? We don’t reach out and take it !
The greatest gift of all – Salvation , His joy , His peace , His victory … Its all there waiting for us. He has already worked the miracle. He died on the cross for our sins and he rose again and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
We are sons and daughters of the most High ransomed by His blood. Everything is right there waiting for us. Its time to stretch out and take it.
God Bless
Ilness is alchemy
this is very noble.
Bom ouvir isso , saber que você não se entregou ao lado marginalizado da doença.
por isso I Like you.
Lisa, may the yellow sunshine fill in your life…
Hi Lisa,
Just wanted to inform you of something … I just happened to hear a story the other day while I was out and about in a small town in Australia about a woman whose mother was extremely pessimistic. I was overhearing the story she told someone about how her mother had been diagnosed with some form of cancer while her daughter was still very young. This lady said that it was as if a light bulb had gone off in her head, and of how for the next few days she started meditating heavily surrounding herself with positive thoughts, and therefore positive energy. This woman who had done nothing but think negatively till that time received an epiphany alongside finding out about her treatment, changing her life around, literally, overnight. This woman then went for a checkup to her doctor about ten days later, and he was completely flabbergasted at how her cancer cells had managed to shrink in such a short time. This story does have a happy ending; the woman is in her late eighties now and is happy, fit and extremely positive. Her mantra – she has the power to rule her own destiny and life; it’s a power we have all got from the Gods above.
Anyway, there was this very interesting documentary shown here in Australia on a channel called ABC a few months ago about how MANY cancer patients have healed themselves with nothing more than BELIEVING that they have the power to do so. I sincerely believe that all the souls of this planet and beyond are interconnected and that we’re here to help one another, so I pray for you, and I am sure you will be writing as beautifully as you do for many years to come. Lots of love and power, jaimatadi, om namah shivai!
Morning sunshine:)
How is your day?i hope it’s good…
“Your future depends on your dreams …
Consequently not waste time, go and sleep! “- i hope you are smiling know…that’s good…a smile does wonders;)
I hope to read you soon..even if my life is a carusel and can not be stoped it now,I have some spear time to pass by here and see what’s happening with you…
All good wishes for you and God bless you:)
Alexandra
Enjoy life to the full!!
The motto of young Generation.
Наслаждайтесь жизнью на полную!
Девиз молодого поколения.
Lisa,
After you write them,
Your words drift and expand into voluminous mounds of yellow.
They sink themselves deep into the ether,
Reaching down,
And lifting stray souls out from the depths of the darker pigments, (and states of mind)
Beconing them to open their weary eyes and bathe in the brilliant sun,
Which directs one’s attention to the light of hope flickering on the horizon, that they could not have seen before.
You are an unyielding inspiration, and for that I owe you thanks. (Do you accept IOUs in exchange for copious amounts of yellow?)
Peace and Love,
Abby
@PIPAY
Tama ka diyan, kahit walang buhok, maganda pa rin. Bilib na ako. Grabe, what a fighter. Ibang klase, ‘di ba? Sana lahat ng tao ganito! Woot! =)
Pagdasal natin siya. (Let’s all pray for her.)
Ingat! (Take care). =)
Hi Raj,
I understand how you feel and it must be very difficult for you, but please think twice before you write something.
Okay? Okay.
Before you write some irrational things again, create your own blog where you can vent out all these feelings.
But we don’t need to know about it, alright? Please don’t let us know.
Hi Lisa..please visit the website sgi.org…please trust me
Venezuela, 18/03/2010, 10:55 am.
Good Morning Ms Ray… Have a wonderful day…. take care… hugs
lisa,
after having spent one hour to read the 171 messages,because it’s physical to come on your blog :),I can’t more what write to you
all is known as with the top
I will say that my message is a mixture of all the others with much kindness, of passion and friendship but also of humor !!!
the life without laughing, without smiling I find that not terible
the most lost days is that or one did’nt laugh
then I will not tell you my day nor my life because you’ve surely things more important to make but on the other hand I send million smiles to you which I hope for it illuminate a little your day !!!!!
Someone guided me to this blog, & I couldnt get away once I started to read.
Am sure you ve already heard this from a zillion others Lisa, but I ll say it nonetheless. You re truly amazing, an inspiration beyond the limited expression the English language is capable of …
I always thought you were a class apart, as a public persona, n my belief in you only stands vindicated 🙂
I dont pray, but I shall carry a prayer for you
Take care ..
Sandeep
“Water” is on the BBC i-player here, watched it again…superb…beautifully made film…a favourite for sure.
Really glad, you seem on top…
Helloooooooooo Lisa,
Just dropping by to say hey! So Hey Girl! I am feeling blah, just came from my doctor’s office, have sinus infection that is unfun, so he gave me some meds and so forth. I am a very lucky little chicken that at 48 I take no meds, have no high blood pressure, I’m thin and not porky, today’s scales at Dr. Office says weight 124, not bad since I’m 5″7….so there are things to be greatful about. It’s a windy, rainy day here in South Florida where I live. I took a drive by the ocean earlier as I live a mile from it, it was all churned up and roiling. Hard to believe that a whole world exists there and most of us don’t give it a second thought when we drive along side it. Yes, I appreciate it and the wonders of it. Marine Life is very interesting to stare at, especially those charming little seahorses.
I hope you are having a shiny and happy day wherever you are on the planet. It costs nothing to wish fellow humanity a good day. So you are it today. So rays of sunshine are beamed your way.
You have lots of support here on your blog. That is a lovely thing.
Bye 4 now little chick-a-dee.
THURSDAY 18th MARCH,2010……………Lisarani RAY,
Virtuous One,Rock of Gibraltar,Angel on Earth,
Thats why you were given…Second Birth,
Kind and loving…..you just keep on giving,
Your words dripping with wisdom,of love and living,
On a journey to do the Lord’s will,
Touching billions of HEARTS and you go on still,
With each day a reminder of the Power of the ALMIGHTY,
On your knees as you pray nightly,
With one accord we bow our knees also,
And pray to GOD that you will forever be as kind,sweet, loving, charitable, caring and filled with renewed vigor to face this beautiful LIFE …GOD BLESS YOU !
rosemarieramnarine@yahoo.com
My Dearest Lisa
To be known is to be.
P.S WHO IS BOBCAT ?
You are still here. And you are not going anywhere. The rest of your life awaits you. And it will be so wonderfulful, so magical, and so much more beautiful than the rest. You have lots of time. You will see.
TRY JESUS ! YOUR LIFE WILL BE TRANSFORMED
“All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me , but not all things edify. Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well being.”
I Corinthians 10 : 23-24 (New King James Version)
A lot of us struggle with various issues in our lives. We ponder if what we are doing is ok … Some lines are not as clear cut as what we would have wanted them to be. We seem to think its ok , while some people frown upon it.
For whatever be the question we need to ensure that we seek answers not in opinions but in the word of God ! Whatever be the aspect of our life , it needs to be established completely as per the word of God.
We see verse 23 in two parts. The first being : All things are lawful but not all things are helpful . So is what we are doing helpful or not ? And again helpful in accordance with the word of God.
The second part is : All things are lawful , but not all things edify. To edify is to instruct , to improve, to enlighten again in accordance with the word of God. Now if what we are doing is neither helpful nor edifies , we need to questions ourselves and figure why we are hooked and drawn towards what we are doing. We need to spend time in prayer and ensure that God is the center of our lives , that He gets top priority.
We read in verse 31 , “Therefore, whatever you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
This verse sums up everything. Whatever it is we do , we are to do all to the glory of God !
I pray , the Lord will open our eyes to see the places in our lives that needs cleaning up. And I pray that by His grace that every aspect of our lives will be for the glory of God.
God Bless
Hi Lisa,
I have been following your blog since the beginning and I have been admiring your tremendous courage in fighting multiple myeloma. You have the heart of a lion and the soul of a poet. In an odd twist of fate, my doctor ordered a bone biopsy last week due to persistent problems with abnormal blood tests and 2 days ago, I just found out that I have multiple myeloma. I am in total shock. I am 50 and have 4 children. I do not even know how to prepare my family for this ordeal or to prepare myself. The first thing I thought about was your blog. I read and reread posts in order to give me some courage to face this and go forward with my life. Thank you for sharing your life with everyone. You cannot know how important it was for me to read the words of a fighter. xo Debi
Cooking with Stella review…
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Movie+review+Cooking+With+Stella+tasty+snack+film/2698712/story.html
i wish you strenght!!!! and may God be with you! if you need to talk to somebody, i ithink that you will find a lot of friends from eveywhere! HEALTH!
Diana
Lisa
Just stoping by to say, ” I love you” and miss you lots..
Hope everything is well with you.
Keep Fighting..
Don’t give up
Love Always
Charlize
San Diego California/Mexico
Lisa
Thinking of you and praying for you and your family.
Keep Fighting..
Don’t give up and don’t forget that we all love you.
Love Always
Charlize
You are a lot of fun. 🙂
Hello Debi,
Life is love, it’s broad and giving, the purpose of life is a life of purpose, and I believe your presence and message here is demonstrating your courage that’s never quit and the longing to live life to the fullest.
Each little action and sharing of good wills and words counts, the synergy of love is universal, knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Dear Lisa has demonstrate her love and passion of life through this blog, a synthesis of positive attitudes and brave hearts.
Never stop fighting.
With warmest blessings,
u.
i see your all movie…i love you..God Bless U! you are in my prayers..in my heart…love ya..
VENEZUELA, 19/03/2010, 10:00AM,
GOOD MORNING MS RAY…
HAVE A NICE DAY…
BY THE WAY, IS THERE ANY POSSIBILITY TO GET AN ADRESS TO SEND YOU A GIFT … YOUR BIRTHDAY IS COMING SOON…
HUGS..
For Lisa Ray
7 reasons why i like Lisa
1 Better Taste
2 Sans Milk
3 Double Double
4 Dosen’t roll up
5 Never Plays Again
6 Likes the medium
7 Hates X-Large
p.s my advice on you is Lisa take a tour to Dalhousie,might help for your better health
We r making u funclub here in Serbia..for real!U r..like a muse for our lifes..ur beauty,mind..stay strong,nd take care…
We love u Zen master 🙂
❤
“Recording the audio book now with Shamim in Mumbai. Fresh adventures… ”
oooh Very good Lisa, Excelente ! ,….sigue adelante,
me da mucho gusto que estas mejorando de salud,..
“Wonderful Mumbai “… como me encantarìa estar ahi contigo,.. acompañandote,… pero recuerda aun en la distancia yo te seguire,…porque todos los días estas en mis pensamientos y oraciones… y le pido a Dios que este ahi contigo en cada momento cuidandote.
Yo siempre te seguire a donde quiera que vayas,..
Sonríe,… eres mil veces más bonita cuando sonries.
Ya quiero tener en mis manos “the audio book ”
Dios te bendiga.
Te quierooo
see you later! ( ya estoy aprendiendo Ingles ) tu me inspiras a aprenderlo y ser mejor y más Feliz ,….
Recording the audio book now with Shamim in Mumbai. Fresh adventures … ”
oooh Lisa Very good, Excellent! …. Go ahead,
I’m glad that these improvements in health, ..
“Wonderful Mumbai” … as I would love to be there with you .. accompanying you … but remember even in the distance I will follow … because every day you are in my thoughts and prayers … and I ask God to be there with you every moment taking care.
I always will follow you wherever you go, ..
Smile … you are a thousand times more beautiful when you smile.
I want to get my hands on “the audio book”
God bless you.
You quierooo
see you later! (I’m learning English) you inspire me to learn and be better and happier ….
hi Lisa,
Like I said before Raj…you’re severely mentally disturbed.
Everyone on this blog finds you to be completely irritating and rude.
You look amazing, as always 😉
Good luck and have some fun recording the audio book!
Keep on smiling!
=)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=382189490635&ref=mf
Friday 19th March,2010……. Lisarani RAY,
Its been a busy week for me and I sit here now( 5.28 pm) at the end of the day at work to write to the Virtuous one…
Hope you are having a tremendous time recording the audio book….Thanks to Shamim and Anie for posting the link….
Keep that beautiful smile and Big HELLOOOOOO to Shamim and Hanan and to your beautiful co- star Sheetal…..
That girl Sheetal has the most gorgeous , huge but dripping gorgeous eyes I tell you!!!!!
Have a wonderful,funfilled, satisfying,peaceful (in your quiet moments) ,spiritually blessed weekend my love.
All My Love..rosemarieramnarine@yahoo.com
P.S..please write soon…….
I think at it sexual frustration .Erotic imaginations. If it is the man. For men this normal the phenomena.
Я думаю, на это сексуальная неудовлетворенность. Эротические воображение. Если это мужчина. Для мужчин это нормальное явление.
wow! Looking good beautiful. Loving the new you. 🙂
Hi Lisa,
I find you logging into my blog…
Did I tell you that I always found you very very attractive during your modeling days.
And I have to tell you that I still find you attractive… from your blog posts… although I haven’t seen a recent pic of yours in some time.
I think you are a fellow passenger on this journey… and it is nice to have a companion who is traveling the same path.
With love and blessings,
B
Hi Lisa
everything happens for a reason.
Venezuela, 20/03/2O1O, 9:15am. Good morning dear Ms Ray… I am so happy to see you in a Shamim’s video where you are recording the audio of the world unseen… You looked so pretty and happy…you have this mystic thing on your eyes, smile and voice…that charmed and fascinated people, just have an irresistibly charming.. 🙂 have a great day.. And keep writting, i am sure you will always have something to tell us… Se te quiere, bendiciones.
I don’t even understand half of what this comment is saying but it just sounds wrong in so many ways – from grammatic to disturbing – sad.
Oh by the way – Lisa – I enjoyed the little snippet on Facebook from Shamim.
lisa :
tanto tiempo, todo lo mejor para vos vida!!! un abazo de aca de argentina…saludos!!!
natalia fernandez
xoxo…..
when it was For Lisa Ray,why did you read it ?,Natalie.i think u r severally mentally disturbed,pardon me
Habibiti,
You are working again. In India. And with Shamim… Great!!! 🙂 🙂
Enjoy your time. Always.
“Fresh adventures…” 🙂
Yes, life is an adventure. For all of us.
You are feeling much better. We can see you now.
Thanks for all your posts!! 🙂
Best wishes,
Ximena. 🙂 🙂
Ops!!
I hope Bobcat is fine now.
Greetings to him,
Ximena.
I have got confused. The translator can to me is not correct has translated. And not clearly who writes the man or woman Name not clear. Many declarations of love. Love can be different. There was only sympathy for the actor, not love.
Я сама запуталась . Может мне переводчик не правильно перевёл . И не понятно кто пишет мужчина или женщина Name непонятные . Много признание в любви . Любовь бывает разная . Есть только симпатия к актёру , не любовь .
Ha! Ha!! I do not understand, you’re a man or a woman?
Ха! Ха! Я не понимаю, вы мужчина или женщина?
At me a question! All blogs of actress Lisa Ray will be closed? Resources of blogs are used and are not necessary any more.? This mine opinions. The request to inform on it.
У меня вопрос ! Все блоги актрисы Lisa Ray будут закрыты? Ресурсы блогов использованы и больше не нужны.? Это моё мнения . Просьба сообщать об этом .
Hi Lisa! I don’t speak spanish very well but I want to say that you are a beautiful and strong girl, you`re so much light in your eyes.
My girlfriend and my are buddhist and everyday we invoke NAM MIOJO RENGUE KIO (it’s a mantra buddhist from Soka Gakki) for you and your health and we visualize you are smiling, happy and healthy I know It’s works. Our thoughts are strong so we can get every thing we want. That’s why you have to are possitive. It’s not easy but a lot of people are thinking to you.
We saw two that your films ” I can’t think straight” and the world unseen, you gave us a perfect gift with you excellent interpretation and you beauty. You can find all energy you need in the universe and I am sure you will win.
A warm hug, light and possitive energy for you…
from Spain we are thinking to you and we are going to send you everyday love, happiness, and good energy, you are not alone.
there are so much things I would like to say you.. I hoppe you apology my bad english. I only speak spanish well.
Have a beautiful and sunny day and tonite the moonlight care your dreams, Kisses lovely!
Your beautiful yellow babies are doing their job very well…keep on!….
Love from Spain…
Dear U,
Thank you so much for responding to my message. It is a wild coincidence – or maybe destiny – that I began reading this blog before I had knowledge of my own condition. Some strong force was already at work preparing my mind for this. I have never before responded to a blog – but after reading Lisa’s and being diagnosed with the same disease – I felt I had to send my message in a bottle. You are right that people gain strength from sharing experiences. Thanks again for reaching out to me – evbery bit of hope adds up.
Debi
I was Rishikesh in oct last. ..Water is the keeper of memories. All the best.
Hi Lisa,
I just received DVD ” I can’t think straight” and “The world unseen” from UK.
And Thing about you, what going on for today?
Love you and take care.
Hello Lisa
I cant say I was a fan before last week Tuesday. I watched I Can’t Think Streight and I became a fan and than did a search of other movies and the next day watched The World Unseen. I have to say that you are brillent actress. I was sadden by the news of your illness.
Optimism is a powerful determining factor in your physical and emotional health , I wish you will and I will keep you in my preyers.
Hello Ms. Sunshine Ray!!
It has been too long since I checked in to see how life is with you….Life sounds as though it is Full of Flowing Joyous Yellow Vibes!!
I’m so happy that you turned off the old thinker for a time…There is a time and a season for all things… Renewing of ones mind, body and soul is important in the processes of healing. If a warrior keeps their bow always taunt it loses its elasticity and therefore becomes of no use to the warrior in fighting the battles…So if you are to continue being a “Yellow Warrior”….you must learn to loosen your bow every so often in order for it to keep its elasticity and be of great strength in firing your “Yellow Arrows” in battle.
I have to say that I Love Spring! A time of rebirth and of new growth….A time full of Life and Living!! It brings a deep resonance to my soul….
Take care Lisa,
Live Life, Love Much, Laugh Often,
Ginger
hola!!! disculpe por no haber escrito hantes ya que soy de chile y nose si a sabido de lo que susedio aca! bueno si no es asi le contaré que hubo un terremoto grado 8,8 aca serca de donde vivo en concepsiom bueno fue horrible pero doy gracias a Dios que me encuentro bien, si, con un poco de sustito al estar sola ya que me quede enserrada en mi piesa sin poder salir y en mi casa tambien sin poder salir y la sensacion no se lo doy a nadie …… y mas estando sola bueno es asi las cosas, pero a la ves al saber que mi familia estaba todos bien me dio fuerza y por eso no pude escrbirle hantes pero lo que e podido leer se que se encuentra bien y me alegra por eso, de aca desde donde vivo le entrego mi cariño y saludos deseando que lea este escrito y poder resibir alguna respuesta perosnal suya claro sin que le moleste besos y muchas Bendiosnes….( chile,concepciom).
Hi Lisa
It is now 1:03 am in Belize City, C.A. I pray for your continued health and wellness as well as Bobcat’s knee. Keep on keeping on.
Hello Debi,
Here is one of my favorite quote from Mark Twain:
“20 years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one you did.
So threw off the bow-lines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Whenever I see this quote, in any pivotal moment of life, I regain tremendous strength and faith reading it each time.
We are the authors of our own lives, we all have the choice and control of attitude how we would like to write these book of lives. The content of book we are writing is in the journey itself, at each crossroad of virtual networking, courageous souls collided, and hope resurrected. When I see people, I see great stories, or metaphorically speaking, I see books with arms and legs 😉 and each cover of book, the texture of skins, vibration of emotions, scent of humanity, are utterly splendid in it’s own grace.
With peace in mind and faith in life.
u.
Thank you Nerrisa.
I am a hostage of great minds, whether they are presented in written or visual forms, are equally captivating.
Here is an unusual utterance of emotions articulated elegantly simply with music and letters, serves as a charming comma of the day.
Blessings,
u.
Hello beautiful one,
thank you for sharing the amazingness that is GD and Rishikesh in your poetical words!!
Not been there myself as yet; but have heard about it many times! ..
Glad, to see you working away (Only page.41!!!! ) hehe………Lisa dear, get on with it 😉
kidding……. (cant wait to hear the audios)
Mwah mwah, have a blessed day!
love you. 🙂 xx
p.s – wishing Bobcat fast recovery for his knees too.
Venezuela, 21/03/2010, 8:00 am. Good morning dear Ms Ray… As always thinking of you and wishing you the best… Have a nice sunday… And tell us a litlle about your experience recording the audio of The world Unseen. Love, Anna
Hi Lisa,
I saw some new treatment option for multiple myeloma in internet. I hope that will be cure for multiple myeloma one day. It is called heat sock protein. Using heat sock protein, there are serveral cancer can be treated. For myeloma it is in phase I trial.
Hope this will help you
Hi Lisa! How do you feel today? Joy my girlfriend told me about your situation, we want to send lots of love, courage, strengh and determination. You can fight by yourself and the energy of the world and people who send love to you.
We recommended lots of books of Eckart Tolle, Neale Donald Walls, louise Mary Hay and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. This books talk about law of atraction and how do you change your reality with possitive thinking. You must only do the things that you like watch comedy films, romantic comedy, and films like The Pacific Warrior, Happiness with Will Smith, and try to look for information on the internet about your illness .We had a friend that have an illness and found the solution on the internet from a tribe of far ,far away .He had a terrible headaches I tought Bethoven and another genious had the same illness is a descompesation on the hipotalame
I watched your films and you look like strong ,your eyes have a lot of energy and Joy tonight after read your blog dreamt that universe is infinite and if you´re in the universe you´re infinite too
I´m actress too and I know you´re very strong by your roles ,find the strenght day by day you´ve a mission in life and ýou need to give love to the world in your films
Lisa we´ll send you lots of love in our mantras and daimoku and we´ll connect with you soon
A big hug of light
Pd.If you want you can visit my webpage ,read the blog too and listen to my music ,pictures .I hope you enjoy it : )
Pd.We would love to send a picture of ourselves ,if you have facebook you can add us
Big ,big smile ,big ,big sun
Good morning Lisa,
I hope you are feeling well!!!! I am very sad, I wish I could do anything to help you. I was reading in the internet a lot about the donors for bone marrow; pretty much they all mention family members; I was really thinking to be a donor of blood stem cells for you!!. I will read more about it. Do you know if this can be done and what are the requisits to do so???!!! I hope to hear from you soon!!
Jessica@CNN’s ode to another beautiful, brave woman…
http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/21/margaret.moth.obit/index.html?hpt=C1
Hello Lisa,
Good Luck with your recording session. I remember spending many days in the studios while working in video production here in South Florida. It’s wonderful the magic that can be created for our viewing pleasure.
I wish Shamim lots of success, it’s a challenge making films and pulling it all together. Luckily she has been able to do it. I have not seen the movie The World Unseen yet, looking forward to seeing it.
Be Well Young One.
I’m off to a party.
Jo
Hi Lisa,
Good to know that you are back in action!!! wonderful news!!! Keep the spirit up!!! enjoy india…
Cheers
Sudhir
YOU ARE THE BEST!!! MY BEST WISHEs!! MUUUUUAAAAAACCK
In China login foreign websites is very difficult.I don’t know whether you can see my message,Anyway, I try to hope that you can see in the faraway China still has a lot of people care about you.Come on lisa,we support you and hope to get your news.
Lisa ray – Never stop fighting &
Never stop writing.
lisa欢迎你来中国!!中国的粉丝团非常期待!!要快快好起来!
Raj,
When you post on a blog, it’s out there for everyone to read. That is why they call it the internet. I highly doubt Lisa wastes her time reading any of your rude and freakish comments.
i’m alway with you honey 🙂
VENEZUELA, 22/03/2010, 9:10 AM, GOOD MORNING DEAR MS RAY…
SOME BODY IN THIS BLOG SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT HELPING LISA IN ANOTHER WAY… LISA HAS SO MANY FANS THAT I AM PRETTY SURE THEY WE WILL BE INTERESTED TO HAVE A PICTURE OF HER. MAYBE SHE CAN TAKE SOME PICTURES OF HERSELF WITH HER AUTOGRAPH IN IT, AND FANS CAN COLLABORATE WITH SOME MONEY TO GET ONE, (AT LEAST THE PRICE WOULD BE FROM 50 DOLLARS OR MORE), I DONT KNOW, IT IS AN IDEA. THE MONEY WILL BE DESTINED TO HELP TO PAY HER TREATMENT OF COURSE… PERSONALLY I WOULD LIKE A RECENT PICTURE OF HER… SHE´S STILL LOOKING GORGEOUS…
THIS ONE WILL BE A PHOTO FULL OF DEEP EMOTIONS THAT IN A FUTURE WE WILL REMEMBER IT AS AN IMPORTANT EXPERIENCE LIVED BY HER.
dear U,
i am impressed by your beautiful writing! well said!and happy to see a person with peace in mind!!!!!! hope Debi will be healthy again, soon!
Diana
listened to your interview with bark(er) dutt and say to you: forget acting (a pity, but in time we’ll get over it) and become the writer that you are…you have great humour, rancour, insight, empathy, your words have touched thousands and as you said, that patient in the clinic was wanting more blogs…put your yellow diaries into a book, let that become your medical aid and continue on your path that the illness forced you back onto…keep drifting, it’s good for a jaded soul…
Hi Lisa,
Rishikesh is certainly a beautiful and comforting place, especially when is going through uncertainities in life. I visited there once and felt and inexplicable sense of calm and tranquility.
I think you are one of the most beautiful women in the world and I know there are many more roles out there for you to play. I loved you so much in Water and Hollywood/Bollywood.
Praying always for a miracle for you.
E
Lisa, mujeres fuertes, emprendedoras, que irradian con su presencia cosas lindas y grandes, son las que deben ayudar a este mundo ser mejor. Gracias por lo que has hecho en mi. La belleza no solo es fisica,tu tienes una alma poderosa, animo, siempre adelante y que la fuerza del espiritu te saque muy pronto de esta adversidad,un abrazo fraterno.cristina
I Love you!
Hola ! CJ.
que gusto que nos das señales de vida,… yo estuve preocupada,…pensando que habia pasado contigo, pues despues de intensos terremotos que ha habido en Chile,…todo mundo estuvimos preocupados…
recuerda lo siguiente:
“Nuestros sufrimientos son caricias bondadosas de Dios, llamándonos para que nos volvamos a Él, y para hacernos reconocer que no somos nosotros los que controlamos nuestras vidas, sino que es Dios quien tiene el control, y podemos confiar plenamente en Él.”
Es una frase de la Madre Teresa de Calcuta..
Saludos a todos nuestros Hermanos del país CHILE
(Concepción). desde México.
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LISA: ( Lisitaaaaa. ))).. Hoy te ví en una foto que tiene Nerissa en su facebook,… “Recording the audio book”
Te ví sonriendo,…. y me dió mucho,… mucho gusto verte
Sigue adelante Corazón…. Vamos bieen..! Excelente!
siempre estare contigo,…
Good bles you!
Missing ur New post Lisa…
Love u so much…
Juhi Verma
Delhi(India)
Dearest Lisa,
A gentle billow of soothing air ease up the occasional turmoil I have inside every time I will read or re-read your blog…
I know there is already a cluster of praises for you and your writing… but for many of us here, your blog is sometimes like a place of solace…
I guess I am reiterating some stuff I have written before… but then I again, I am just reaffirming some of my deepest gratitude:
Thank you for the depth of your Spirituality, for your mind that imparts understanding and deeper Intelligence and for your strength from which I gather strength as well.
I sometimes drew heavily upon your Being-ness which gives me the needed push that I need to go on… and so much more… for that, I extremely appreciate it.
For the umpteen time, Thank you for sharing your Life with such scalpel-sharp Honesty that whisper a lot of Truths in our humanity.
More importantly, You don’t know it yet… but you added something in my Life that helps me go on Believing…
I am keeping that in my Heart whenever things are shaky in my lot… and I am profoundly grateful for it.
I am utterly delighted that the tide has turn for you and Cancerland is over!
I Believe that more great Adventures in the pipeline waits for you and a slew of opportunities are just inching their way towards your direction.
I am always keeping you in my prayers…
Wishing you leaps and bounds of Blessings,
–Nerissa
Raj,
Please try to divert your focus on other things.
Raj, it must be upsetting for you that a lot of people don’t like your comments. Try to understand that this is not your personal space on the internet. This is a public blog, and when you write these “weird” things, of course people will react (and I will not exclude myself).
Your comments are quite disturbing (if not alarming) and I think you should seek professional help.
Lisa,
Just dropping by to say Hi!
Keep smiling and never stop fighting!
All our prayers and support from the Philippines!
=)
Nerrissa
What nice words !
I think as well as your
we continue united in prayer for our beloved Lisa
Gos bless You.
Lisa
Do you still go to Trish on King’s street Etobicoke Beauty Institute?
In2004- 2005 I use to work there,giving Medical massages.It was Christmas time & you had come for your pedicures & manicures & your beautician had asked me to meet you & probably give u a massage but i was bzee with a client in the other room by the time I came out u had gone.
My destiny took me away from Canada,right now im working in a hospital in Saudia.(i guess ive Ibn-batutta’s soul in me )
I never go on the Internet nor blog except sometimes to read about some medical stuff.My email account is flooded by something arnd 6000 + emails & jst suddenly i dont know why I put your name on search & read about you.
So you ended up being a doctor ?I will call you from now on Dr.Lisa 😉 & ofcourse your Dad too has become a doctor.
It was very nice to read your thoughts & very nice to
srry got to go,patients
C ya
Raj!! More smile, enjoy life, eat healthy fruits, see good films. everything will be fine.
Раджа !! Больше улыбайся , наслаждайся жизнью , ешь фрукты полезные для здоровья , смотри хорошие фильмы . всё будет хорошо.
hola lisa:
soy de colombia y hablo español asi q trate de escribir un poco en ingles jajajaja espero entiendas…
not if you have read my messages but equal itself writing you that your you are a strong woman and that the first time is not concerned what it puts itself to you opposite you surpass it easily you know you have inspired to me too much, that to you I did I wrote it now in Spanish not if you understand to me so that my English is quite bad in aim I send to a kiss and a hug to you
what a friend you have babe! Shes got your back. And you look like you are doing well (and of course GaGorgeous too) :). Luv Luv Luv
Lisaraniray, Lisa, Lisita,Talita, Habibti, Beatiful Princess:
“Well, Lisa finished ‘I Can’t Think Straight’ today, doing an amazing job. We just had a celebratory dinner in Bandra. Here’s a ‘thank you’ message she wanted to post ”
Excelente !!
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Today is my birthday, March 24.
to extinguish the candles of my cake …
my wish is that your best health and meet you in person someday ( is my dream),…. but mainly i just wish you to be healthy
Keep on smiling
maybe i can’t express me well in English, just hope you can understand what i want to say!
(I’m learning English) you inspire me to learn and be better and more happy
God bless you forever
See you later !
Te quiero Much
HELLO MY EMERALD-EYED !!!
I hope you are fine…
I saw your a video on dailymotion with Shamim Sharif. your and Shamim Sharif’s beauty of heart reflected on your face. I congratulate both of you and everyone who contributed for the audio book.
Your and Shamim Sharif’s fans will buy the audio book.I am sure that :-).You have to be relax….beauty draws attention and see everytime dear Lisa Ray.Especially beauty of heart…the voice and the face is the mirror of the heart dont forget this…
Lisa Ray ; I wish, Your heart what it wants,the life shows that to you my imagine friend.
than a mark, a signature from you again in this life dear Lisa Ray.
I do not have any trace in this life.I hope my girls will like you.I hope my doughters can Put a beautiful and permanent traces.
Have a nice day my blue rose…
ALL THE BLUE ROSES IN THE WORLD TO YOU…..
LISA=DOĞA
HELLO MY EMERALD-EYED!!!
I know you get bored but I draw a new picture again. I sent to your twitter page. If you can look I will be very happy.
This would be for your birthday.But I did not patient:-). to your birthday remined very little time.I would like to give a gift but I know this is impossible.If I were to give my gift was ready
You have reborn dear Lisa Ray.I wish very good luck for this baby.Long and health life.Happy and patient life.especially I wish very very good luck for you dear Lisa Ray.I will say “happy birthday to you” on April 4 but If you accepted a small gift my drawing for your birthday.I will be very happy.I never know will you accepted or not but I hope you accept it.
I dont know this baby looks alike your infancy.My imagination could run so much.SORRY!! I did not know which one do you like because of this I sent different type of my drawing.I hope you like your birthday gift.I am very very sorry dear Lisa Ray.This comes from my hand up for now.You are worthy of the most beautiful things.
You are value for me Lisa Ray.I like your boldness.But Not for fighting of the disease.Life is beatiful maybe everyone can fight but largest courage is “honesty” for me. The honesty wants courage dear Lisa Ray. reaction of people you never know when you honest.courage and intelligence, combined thou.You shaved your hair and you showed that picture to all people.Does this confidence, courage, intelligence? I dont know but because of this I LOVE YOU MS. LISA RAY. So I know your these properties and I love those:-)
I get flowers to my mothers in my every birthday.I was born premature and my mother has taken many pains for me.For all birthdays the mothers most important for me.
I know your mother doesnt with you.Hand to kiss is expression of pespect for my puplic lisa Ray.Because of this I kiss your mother’s hand.get venue paradise for your mother.get peace of mind in paradise.
Turkish and English is very very different .The sentences organizations completely different.I know a lot of mistakes I am very sorry Lisa Ray I hope you understand me.
Good bye my “HARMONY OF NATURE”
LISA=DOĞA
Hi Lisa,
Kaisi hai?
It seems that you are on pilgrimage tour of India.
Visiting nice places of India. Visiting places of different deities.
According to Gita, worship of any Deity is also a worship of Lord Krsna. In Gita Krsna Himself says:
“Whosoever desires to worship whatever deity — using any name, form, and method — with faith, I make their faith steady in that very deity. Endowed with steady faith they worship that deity, and obtain their wishes through that deity. Those wishes are, indeed, granted only by Me.” (Gita: 7.21-22)
But He adds further:
“Such material gains of these human beings are temporary. The worshipers of celestial controllers go to celestial controllers, but My devotees certainly come to Me.” (Gita: 7.23)
Meaning is: For material gain, One can worship any deity. But salvation can be endowed by Krsna only.
It is said that when Ravan, tired of rampaging across the earth, returned to Lord Shiva to request moksha. Shiva replied that he had granted Ravana the boon of indestructibility, but moksha, he must instead seek from Lord Vishnu.
Ravan’s battle with Ram was indeed to attain liberation.
So think of the highest perfection and be a devotee of Krsna.
Krsna says:
“Always think of Me, become My devotee. Surely you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My dear friend.” (Gita: 18.65)
Love,
Nikhil
Hi Marie,
You are right, we continue to be united through our prayers and support for Lisa…
I think it can be called ‘Yellow Kinship’ 🙂 😉
Thank you for the compliment, it brings warmth to my Heart.
Long lingering Smiles for you,
–Nerissa
Hey Marie,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Hope you’re having loads of birthday wishes that are coming true. And I pray that you meet Lisa one day and real soon 🙂 😉
CHEERS,
Nerissa
Dear Debi,
I feel that I am lost for words…
Life has its own maddening twists and turns that we may never fully comprehend yet they do exist for a reason….
Whatever the reason for this ‘new chapter’ in your Life, I pray much strength, support and all the things you will need to get through this…
And I Believe YOU WILL overcome this challenge with such flying colors that spells unwavering courage and Faith!!
With Love and Suport,
–Nerissa
Thank you, Nerissa. !
Smile !
Smile Lisitaa Today
For HELEN
Thanks to empathize with me.I hope Miss Ray thinks that i am not bob-CAT
p.s with love from India
Lisa & Bloggers…
It’s been interesting reading the comments especially the ones geared toward the spiritual. Such a wide and varied view on the sacred and profane. For me even the word spirtual defies an explantation. If being in awe of a tree is spiritual or being fascinated by the fractal designs of seashells is sacred then I guess I am spiritual.
I cannot subscribe to any organized religion simply because they all seem so small and pale next to the actual engines of creation. I like to think that I am an imaginative human and that whirling wheels of creativity reign in my brain, but next to the engines of creation, the energy that runs all things everywhere- well I feel like the pea under the mattress. Smaller then atoms, a ghost in the quark machine.
I’ve explored many religions over the years like an astronaunt I guess. The only thing I have discovered is some moon rocks and probability theories.
I was recently told by a Baptist Fundamentalist that if I wasn’t saved that I was going to burn in hell. I replied to him casually that I was okay with that as long as he brought the marshmellows. How can one honestly respond to such a silly statement? How easy it is for some to become hypnotized and despotic.
My truth is: I don’t know how the engine of creation operates, yet I continue to seek, to probe, to pierce the very heart of atoms, until there are no atoms, until there is nothing, where there is only silence, which I welcome like a religion.
I start with a question, because I don’t want to presumptuous.. Is yellow your favourite colour then?
Anyway, now, onto the main point.
I have just read all the blog posts in one sitting.
My face has gone through plenty of physical sensations.
In no particular order.
Eye juice held at the back of the eye.
A few involunarily drops of said eye juice.
A smile appeared on my face.
My eyes dried out and the right one has a pin-sized itch.
The eye-juice because it’s unfortunate bitse has to be the foundation for something so great.
Allow me to elaborate.
What you (would) call “the cancer club” mentality is for the most part what I would call the “fight club” mentality.
“Fight club isn’t about words. You see a guy come to fight club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood. This guy trusts himself to handle anything.” Correct me if I’m wrong, but, it seems through this you trust yourself to handle anything too?
You let go of all the bullshit that comes under “societal norms”, you shaved your head and you ate to your hearts content.. You did what you pleased. You ARE more beautiful than ever.
Peace and love.
Wish you be happy ,healthy.there are so many people all over the world love you,take care of yourself.I want to improve my poor English,and then to communicate with you.You are a courageous,strong,beautiful woman,I love you so much.I can’t live without you.
Hi lisa,
how r u dear i heard that ur in india is there any to meet u plz i really want to see u once this is my dream u see u to be with u,and always take care of u,is there any problem to hold ur hand and tell that iam awlays there with u everything will be alright i want to be with u as ur sister always with u plzzzzzzzz
madam lisa ray,
my wife’s terminal cancer was cured completely by a Herbal Doctor Of Wayanad, Kerala.
Fr more details , kindly call me on 0-94481-03890 at your earliest.
I would be very happy to be of service to you.
Regards
Damodar
Hi Jo,
Let me preface this by saying that I am not religious and I see myself as ‘Spiritual’…
And I see Spirituality as something that is relative depending on one’s constructs and perceptions of things…
I am hymning along with this quote by Ricky Martin:
“God is too big to fit into one religion.”
On that note, I would add that Spirituality is too deep and far too wide to be defined let alone ethereal to be captured…
It’s like defining Life & Love itself and many interpretations will come forth… All of which are right because it is one’s own…
I don’t dispute what you said about us being microscopic in the grand-scale miracle of things that make everything move… in fact, I stand on ceremony for it.
But at the same time, I like to see that each and every Person is one majestic creation and each of us magnifies the beauty of everything around us.
Without our simple part in this “actual engines of creation” as you put it, there would be no creation in itself…
For we are part and parcel of this encompassing thing called Universe, Life, Love and even religion…
The only option is to marvel at every single iota of creation.
I love your point of views,
–Nerissa
PS:
In silence, it is where true transformation happens…
Dear Lisa Ray,
I live in a small buddhist monastery in the foothills of the Himalayas and we go often to the river Ganges. it is sacred to buddhists as well. Scientists say that this river is like no other on the planet. It has more oxygen than any other water which gives it a purifying quality…but of course, they don’t know why. science confirms what the ancient wisdoms have been saying for centuries, but it can only go so far. only the ancient philosophies can take us beyond. To understand the true nature of reality as it truly is, to alleviate suffering and bring happiness to all sentient beings. thus we traverse the path of life in manifold directions over countless lifetimes. to attain the same goal.
whatever little merit i have accumulated i dedicate it to you and to all others who who face similar hardships.
i wish you all the best,
andy
Lisa,
Your stories are amazing and I love them so much.
I know that this should be about your blog, but I just want to let you know that your works are amazing. You have helped me to come to terms with my sexuality and it is amazing what you do. Every day, you push hard and fight your cancer and that is amazing! Your strength has helped me to push past hard patches in my life and you are simply perfection. Please keep writing, this is a masterpiece.
Em um tempo onde a base da vida é feita de ilusões, eu me disponho a te escrever pensando que você vai entender.
Não, não tenho vontade de aparecer, mas de conhecer…
Conhecer o caminnho que me trouxe até aqui…
Conhecer o poder da distância…
Conhecer a tranquilidade do infinito…
Conhecer as possibilidades e fragilidades que aparecem a cada dia em nossas vidas.
Tenho 26 anos e minha amada companheira descobriu a pouco tempo que tem linfoma. Um caso tratável, mas que fez acender uma luz que até então eu desconhecia…
A vida nos mostra, nos dá e nos tira tudo em um milésimo de segundo.
O que eu quero com isso!?
Eu quero que você saiba que eu existo e me importo com você!
Parece pouco!? E realmente é, mas com um pouco de cada o vidro enche e até derrama.
Um abraço forte e com o meu carinho.
Fique com Deus!
Dear Lisa,
How’s life treating you now ? Hope you must be feeling much much better now ! When i heard the news regarding your illness i couldn’t believe my ears …… Just keep faith in god and everything will become fine automatically . I can understand what you must be going through well not 100% but yeah to some extent i can. Even i am also going through some serious health issue so i know its really hard to keep faith in god n to be patient after all we are only humans we can only keep our patience and try to do whatever is in our hands and the rest is upto the almighty ……
You just take care of yourself and god will bless you for sure. Hoping to hear from your side !
My name is Nathalie, and i have been reading the diaries from Lisa for the last few days, and just wanted to make a small coment. This last year 2009, I have become a mother, the most amazing thing that life could have given to me, my baby, who i called Rachel, after my grandmother who i loved and admired ever so much. She was half indian and european, but was adopted while very small, she had many childred 9, during all her life she fighted against the alcoholic husband she had who gave her one beating after another, but even so she brought her children up, and made sure they never suffered. She was diagnosted with bone cancer many years ago, when i found out i thought the whole world would end for me, i realy loved my grandmother, but she was very strong and decided to carry on with life and was determined to see her grandchildred grow. She did. I am now 36 years old and unfortunatly she is no longer with us, but didnt give in on her fight, she pased away at 89 years old, her heart just stoped beating one day, but maneged to overcome her cancer and see what she most wanted in life.
Up till yesterday i must say the most admirable lady to me, i say that because frome today onwards i would like to join you Lisa Ray, I didnt know much about you untill i saw one of your films, now i have seen many, and not only must i say that i profesionaly admire your work, but these diaries are so inspiring for many people. You have helped me so much, And just would like to add that i hope you can keep helping me!!!
Thankyou
Dear Lisa
They r showing “DEFENDOR” at westdale theatre.I would be coming to see it.So it would be my first view of u on the screen.I hope that it would be fine with me.
p.s super-star job
Habibti,
Good day for you in Mumbai!!! 🙂
Great job with Shamim!! 🙂 🙂
I hope you are fine and happy now.
And I hope Bobcat is fine, too. 🙂
Enjoy the life. Live. Smile. See. The world is yours. 🙂
Best wishes, fighter,
Ximena. 🙂 🙂
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awww, you had to read soo many pages 😦 — they are not even 8 x 11, must’ve been arduous. What next? Where u gonna be in 8 days? Babe, you look tanned and uff those beautiful eyes.
yeh aankein dekh kar hum saari duniya bhool jaate hai
musaafir inmein gir kar apna rastaa bhool jaate, bhool jaate hai
Dear Lisa
Your movie will be presented on TV in CCTV-6(China Central Television) on 22:26 3rd, Apr(+8:00, Beijing Time Zone).
CCTV-6 is the most important and famous Movie Channel in China. You will be known by more and more Chinese people.
That maybe a birthday gift for you.
Looking forward to watching you on TV.
Betty from China
Dear Lisa,
“Sometimes the world is so beautiful and so fierce I can feel my heart tear”
You somehow captivated in words the frailty of being human.
I was reminded of an old truth I have stumbled upon – one which was known to all who have shared their brilliance with humanity:
that which makes us fragile and vulnerable and bare will eventually carry us into our greatest magnificence.
Sunlight comes only after the darkest hour of the night.
You are a beam of light to us all.
thank you.
anna claro que mi pais de mis padres es hermoso y como desearia regresar y sentir su aire en mi cara y abrazar a mis seres queridos , … cuando y solo si mi tierra vuelva ser la que nuestro proceres nos dieron su legado libertad de que nuestros pensamientos , ..sean como el caballo corre en la amplia llanura con la brisa de la mañana. ..
Excelente !!
HELLO MY EMERALD-EYED!!!
I wish the birds move your voice to me…
I wish the wind moves your smell to me…
I wish moonlight moves your face to me…
But it is impossible dear Lisa Ray I know 😦 I hope you are fine.You are living new adventures.This is very nice.Realy, I am happy for you Dear Lisa Ray.
ALL THE BLUE ROSES IN THE WOLD TO YOU !!!
Goodbye my Sımurg,
Goodbye my emerald-eyed,
oodbye my blue rose
LISA=DOĞA
Hi Lisa,
Reading your posts is like catharsis of soul.
May allways that happen with you which in god’s perspective best for you.
Best Wishes for the journey.
Himanshu
Hola Lisa!
Mucha fuerza, por todo lo leido se que la tienes!
cariños desde Chile.
Dear Lisa,
The following is something that I came across, which maybe you will appreciate. You never know where you will find wisdom. Keep fighting, God bless and best wishes.
” The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read to little, watch TV too much and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We’ve done larger things, but not better things.
We’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete…
Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent. Remember to say ‘I love you’ to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share precioius thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – George Carlin
Correction…The Paradox of Our Time was written by Dr. Moorehead…message still important.
My best wishes to you. Stay strong ❤
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the ones we are ashamed, because the words were miserable, words shrink things until they were in your head seemed endless, and reduced to no more than life-size when brought out. The most important things lie too close to the point where your heart buried secret. As signals left to find a treasure your enemies would be happy to take away and you could make revelations that cost you only to find that people will look strange, not understanding at all what you said, not understanding why it seemed important enough to cry while most were saying. When the secret stays locked within not for want of stories but one that for lack of an ear that knows how to listen…..
excuse the personal thoughts, I embrace you strong..
Catia, Italy
You haven’t updated your blog for a long time ,i worry much about you ,please take care of yourself,and be happy!please!
Dear Lisa,
Yesterday, I chanced up meeting a good soul from GOA. He is the publisher of HERALD (one of Goa’s daily newspapers founded in 1900), who is here for vacation. Anyway, more than the Indian food which I seriously feasted on his table, it was you whom I thought of. And I feel very special with the thought that somehow, there’s been a first hand experience of India in my midst. Your India.
Take care…
Iamne
Cebu, PHILIPPINES
Hello Nerissa,
Thanks for your comments, it’s always interesting to hear another’s point of view whether I agree or disagree with another’s perception of how they see and experience life in 3 D, which is height, width and depth encompassed by the space around it. I thiink it may be a bit elitist of us homosapiens to think that life or other forms of life would be upset if we were not there to observe their life process. Life in one form or another existed long before humans decided to leave the sea and make a beeline for the shorelines and then onto dry solid ground and evolve into the thinking creatures of today. The Grand Canyon has been around for a long time, and when I fly over it in awe, I often wonder if all those layers of geological rocks that will more than likely continue to exist long after I have returned to ashes and dust will even know that I once existed? Will those rocks even miss me? When I make my exit from this realm, this living breathing existence that I now live, will the engines of creations miss my presence here? Will they remember that I was here for a duration? Will my time here be etched on some eternal Emerald Tablet in a place unknown to me?
Or is this just my over active imagination at work because I need the comfort and validation that I lived and breathed and existed here on this planet for a brief time. My hedonistic ego likes to think that all of creation would never forget me and the integral part that I played here, that my own personal dance of life really mattered and will continue to matter always -simply because energy can never be destroyed. Perhaps redistributed but never destroyed.
How many times in the course of day have you actually told people that they are special because they are part of the mysterious divine dance of creation, part of the web of life and how do they respond? Do they look at you like you have 2 heads and a tail?
Over the weekend I volunteered at a nature center, I at 48 was the youngster there, the oldest volunteer being 95. It was so interesting to hear them talk about religion and politics. One man told me he was a devout catholic who could not eat meat on Friday because of Lent. I told him that I was sorry to hear that because the hamburgers tasted great. He aksed me if I was religious and I told him that yes I did believe in the Easter Bunny because this Easter Bunny delivered candy and I love candy. He looked at me like I was a raging heathen which was I accepted. Another of the seniors told me that she was jewish and was I jewish? I told her for a nice brisket and a steaming bowl of matzoh ball soup I could act the part for a day. I told them that I would pretend to be any religion for food. 2 of the seniors were in a heated political argument, one a staunch republican, the other a liberal democrat. They were both so adamant about their own convictions and they asked me what party I was. I told them I had no party affiliations and had never even voted before because unless I was the candidate to be elected my interest waned. I told them that being an alien from another planet made it an easy decision to only want to vote for myself.
Beliefs are the catalysts that fuel the human imagination.
Great plots performed and played out by humanity while other life forms observe from their unbiased unhuman perspective…and that sometime is a good thing….
Yes, we are all unique snowflakes created by the great snowmaker and on a snowy day you can catch one of those unique snowflakes on your tongue or in your hands and wonder about it afterwords…
but frankly I prefer palm trees and coconuts instead….
Monday 29th March,2010.
To my VIRTUOUS ONE——LISA RANI RAY,
Missing you much!
Make sure and get your check – ups and bloods done !
Keep on top of this and please take care of yourself!
All my Love….rosemarieramnarine@yahoo.com
hello lisa,
as a small kid i have always had a crush on you 🙂
i remember once telling my mom when i was about 9 or 10 years old that “look mom how beautiful is she ”
i dont know what i m saying..
i have just started blogging and i m chicken in this case .. just wanted to say that you have been the most beautiful women for me and my friends … pl take care of your health ..
regards
DIVS
GM! You put up with that discomfort for six months. Hopefully your eyelid won’t be a problem nomore after this fix. Enjoy your view baby gal!
Hi Lisa
Just checking in for another blog but alas – so i am wishing you a Happy bday should you not get a chance to update before then – Take care please. I will add your oculars to my prayers tonite.
Lisaraniray, Lisa, Lisita,Talita, Habibti, Beatiful Princess:
you said,….
“I’m a one eyed bandito. Loving my patch…draw an eye, partner” // Twitter //
happens to your eyes.??? our little rays of sunshine.
I hope you are well, I’m worried about you
take care of yourself
always be with you
Smile!
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in Spanish.
Hoy vi en tu Twitter: que mencionas algo con tu ojo,….
heyy Lisitaa,…..que sucede con tus ojitos ?….. nuestros rayitos de sol.
espero te encuentres bien, yo estoy preocupada por ti
Cuidate muchoo, mi Amor.
Siempre estare contigo,…
Sonrie!!
Lisa!
I write to you because you came to mind during a contemplative moment. Whilst scrolling down to write this post, I noticed that a lot of people have suggested ‘alternative’ therapies to you – I wonder if you have tried any of them out?
Cutting to the chase: I believe there’s a message in them for you… and that is that you could be a little more ‘in control’ of the process that you are going through. I believe that gaining a little more understanding of the larger metaphysical universe that we live in is key to accelerating the healing process that your body naturally performs in response to injury/disease.
I suggest the following book to you: http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Promise-Qi-Creating-Extraordinary/dp/0809295288/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1269989013&sr=8-1
Please note that this (or the ones above) is not an alternative mechanism/therapy but rather a ‘complementary’ method. An open mind and a healthy skepticism would be a handy friend along the way.
Bless you!
Waiting for your New Post Lisa…………:)
Lots of love and hugs..
Juhi Verma
Delhi (India)
I may be a little late on joining your journey but after reading all your blog posts, I wanted to tell you that you have inspired me. I’m not just talking about your journey with cancer. You as a person are inspiring and has shown me that even when we are faced with hard times we can get through them or at least push our way through them. I can no longer focus on the negatives that life has thrown at me. I need to be proactive and when I want to achieve things, I am the only one standing in my way. I will continue to read about your adventures because I feel like I am connecting with you in some stange way. Thanks for the much needed inspiring…
baavra mann dekhne chala ikk spana
baavare re se mann ki dheko, baavri hai baathe
baavari si dadhkane hai, baavari hai saasain
baavari si karvato se nidiyan thu bhaaghe
baavare se nain chaahe, baavare jharokon se
baavare naazhaaronkho thaknaa
baavre se iss jaaha mein, baavra ikk saath ho
iss sayaani bheed mein bas haathomein tere haath ho (BobCat ki)
baavra si dhun ho koyi, baavra ikk raag ho (yellow)
baavra mann dekhne chala ikk sapna
Won’t have access to the internet for the next 5 days. Hope you have a wonderful birthday on Apr 4rth wherever it is that you are gonna be!!! Love u
HELLO MY EMERALD-EYED !!!
I hope you like the your picture( I drew).I sent from twitter to you dear Lisa Ray.
I dont know maybe you dont like and maybe it was mistake…You never tell anything because of this I dont know I am not sure:-( If it was my fault I’m sorry.
I hope your eye is better ….
Good afternoon …
LISA=DOĞA
Rishikesh, a place to be at …
Rishikesh, glad you enjoyed it and made to this special place on our earth
DEAR LISA.YOU fine actress.Love YOU.
Прекрасная актриса я надеюсь болезнь исчезнет.Я хотела бы этого.LOVE . Sasha.
Thoughts for a day which is today.
I stepped on my favorite reading glasses about 2 months ago and since then the world of words, letters and numbers seem odd and foreign to me. I broke down and bought a pair of reading glasses from the drugstore- but it’s just not the same. Its like riding in a car with a blind person driving.
I miss my favorite glasses, I wonder if they miss me?
Hey you’re literally a “Spring Chicken” !!! (Lol) Hope you have a wonderful birthday ! After the last year you deserve to have the biggest smile on your face ever!!! Your words ,no matter the form they take or the tone always reverberate the same theme- Life’s a gift to be treasured ! Anyhow since you strike me as the reflective type here are some cool quotes from some awfully brilliant thinkers to get the ball rolling :
“The world is new to us every morning – this is God’s gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day.”
~Baal Shem Tov
“The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ”
~Julien Green
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~Anaïs Nin
“No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ”
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
like a tear that doesn’t find a way to come into this world……but longs to be shed in memory of a friend far away….
like an unspoken word….. that will lose its truth if spoken….
thats how i feel… for you lisa.
i want to salute you and let you know you are an inspiration… I am a doctor from delhi & i believe that it is ultimately the mind which triumphs over matter…. i know this coz i have seen it….. by mind i mean faith…. in god….. in life…..in the self
however difficult the chemo and pain you must be going through, just keep your mind strong as you have… there are people all over the world praying for you… including me!! lots of love and prayers…….
an admirer
Dear Lisa..
My best friend , Anna Haydon, has just been admitted to the hosp (and yes, she has been diagnosed with MM).
After non stop crying for few hours, I decided to do a google on Multiple Myeloma right now…and all i have been reading for last few hours was that MM has 2% death rate amongst all types of cancer, its incurable, or 50 months life span, new wonder drugs that will prolong life…blah blah..
I suppose friends and family of anyone who is diagnosed with such stuff goes thru this rigour…..(and it gives us information but it doesn’t really help)
I dunno exactly why I am writing to you, but I stumbled upon yr blog, and for a few moments I felt hope and light, and the realisation that it doesnt matter how long is one’s life as long as it’s meaningful…my friend Anna is a true angel and one of the most kind and positive people I have ever met, and I think after reading some of yr posts and how yr friends and family have supported you…I think I just wanna say that in this age of information (esp the one that is devastating for others) your truth (even if it hurts) can bring a smile to others…..
God Bless You babes. ..and keep writing….coz I think you touch more hearts than yr aware of…..
Cheers and a Happy Easter.
Mitali
Hey hey Lisa =)
I’m happy to hear that you’re doing great and enjoying India.
I made a trifold hat out of a newspaper today for my 4-year-old brother. He put it on his head and said that he was a pirate, but he only missed the eye patch. It immediately reminded me of you.
I’m glad your eye is getting better.
By the way thank you for mentioning your eTalk interview for Stella (and thnx Jeni for posting it ) and for quoting Emiliana Torrini’s Sunny Road. Another beautiful song stuck on my iPod.
You must miss Bobcat. How is his knee doing btw?
Here’s the interview I was talking about:
Experimenting with complete honesty turned out pretty well, don’t you think?
Keep living, enjoying and celebrating =)
*BIG hug*
Greetings Lisa & Bloggers,
Lisa, your photo at Twitpics is adorable, your hair is sprouting nicely. You have a perfect round Chia Head. You look sparkling and healthy and the pink lipstick works for you…
I’ve been invited to Easter dinner by my friend whom I haven’t seen since she found out she had colon cancer. She is currently in the harsh seas of chemo but is riding the the rough waves like a skilled mariner.
I have mixed feelings about seeing my friend, her beautiful
long dark hair has fallen out. I always admired her hair and she is so beautiful. She has taken to wearing wigs and says that it doesn’t look half bad.
I’m not sure how I will react when I see her in person. We speak on the phone once a week, I lend my support via fiber optics and satellite. I wish I could bring along a magic wand to wave over her, to take her pain and those rogue cancer cells away, but not before asking them who they are and where they come from. Then maybe I could spare countless others the emotional turmoil and physical pain.
You see cancer is a thorn in my side, it has taken 2 of my friends away from me, one from melanoma at 40 and one from pancreatic cancer at 39. Another friend is holding steady and his leukemia is in remission but the cost of his medicine is steep at $62.00 per pill.
My friend told me that Easter is a big holiday for her as she is Christian. I am non religious, always have been. However I have a tremendous respect for the Body Temple, the body that our spirit essence/personality lives in as a host until it decides one day that it shall move on. But shouldn’t one go in peace and in good health? I think so, I’ve always thought that way. Yes, I know, people are fond to tell me that I am unrealistic, that is not how life operates here on earth. Well I’d like to bitch slap the great cellular rule maker or fix the bugs in celluar software. Why? Because l like life when it is sweet and beatiful. I’ve no issues with the concept of a paradise on earth. Quite frankly adversity gives me indigestion. I’ll never be one to say that one grows from adversity. I’ll take my version of paradise first and foremost anyday.
I often think of my friends who’ve succumbed to the ravages of rogue cancer cells and I wished that I had known our futures and our destinies prior. We could have met up at our favorite hang out with our life road maps in hand and I could have said to them, well it’s been a great ride here, but according to your life maps it looks like we will part ways in a bit, but let’s meet up again, I’d like that. I have to finish it out here but once I’m done, I’ll look you both up. We’ll have fun again just like old times and I’ll let you guys foot the bar tab. Luckily for them I am a light drinker because too much alcohol wrinkles your liver…
Lisa, Be Happy, Young and Care Free….
Its time and as Summer starts, events start
But this is first time and is for a great cause
** Women Care Conference **
http://www.bayareaindoamerican.com/events/wcc
30
days until
Women Care Conference
Its the time and is the time
A cause which needs great highlighting was keeping busy
After successful release and great response from people
Enjoy the Video from the DVD
http://www.bayareaindoamerican.com/community/odv
Please check out the creativity and efforts with some special effects …
उत्तर प्रदेश असोसिएशन औफ़ उत्तर अमेरीका
भाषा ही जोड़ती है – Language Unites US
Dearest Lisa: Birthday wishes of healing…. I hope you get a chance to read this – I am hoping it can help you. I caught the end of a Elizabeth Vargas report on 20/20 this evening which shared about the confirmed miracle of a woman cured of cancer. This was one of two miracles attributed to reverend/father Damien (now saint Damien). I don’t think the 20/20 episode is available online yet, but I hope you can see the full report in the actual episode that aired. I also wanted to post for you a link with information about Saint Damien: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien
– The info. re. the 2nd miracle is under “canonization” … “In the second case, Audrey Toguchi, a Hawaiian woman who suffered from cancer, was completely cured after having prayed at the grave of Father Damien on Molokai:[22] In 1997, Toguchi was diagnosed with liposarcoma, a cancer that arises in fat cells. She underwent surgery a year later. A tumor the size of a fist was removed from the side of her left thigh and buttock. Unfortunately, the cancer spread to her lungs. Her physician, Dr. Walter Chang, told her, ‘Nobody has ever survived this cancer. It’s going to take you.'[23] The Toguchi case was documented in the Hawaii Medical Journal of October 2000.[19]…”
I know you must be overwhelmed with so many words to read. If this can help you – beautiful. Peace to you always, J.
P.S. Our birthdays are two days apart, and I am an actress also! (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004264/ -Shameless, I know) But I really do hope you get a chance to read my previous comment and that somehow it helps you. Blessed Easter to you! -J.
Happy Birthday Lisa! Best wishes to you on your birthday… And don’t stop fighting on melanoma. I know you can get over it, I do believe in you. Once again happy birthday and a blessed Easter Sunday. Keep me posted on your blogs.
~Grace~
Lisa…
” thank you for being a generous soul and a beautiful spirit in a world that could use a million more people just like you… and always know that you are appreciated more than words can say… Happy Birthday beautiful…”
LIsa,
Not outside,
only in itself one is to look for the peace.
Who found the internal silence,
reaches for nothing,
and it rejects also nothing.
Buddha
I wish that you find your peace
and at the same time I would like
that you reach for the most improbable things,
because only if you has goals,
you possesses the strength the way of the life to go.
And thus wish I you the strength for current period of life,
which will not be smoothed with tormenting questions,
on which it does not seem to give answers,
stops you with these questions.
Never forget the sun on one day,
if you with new life energy presents you.
Give up not,
do not take you not from us
you,
the beautiful woman,
the strong woman,
that as much property can cause,
even if there is apparent only small traces in the hearts of strangers.
My thoughts with you,
I you will not reject themselves,
but include with in my peace.
Please forgive my bad english…
best wishes, Anne
Venezuela …. Cartagena… 04/04/2010hello Ms Ray….. HAPPY BIRTHDAY , have a great time… I wish you the best…
Happy birthday and happy every day! Lisa ,I love you forever.
Our Ever Dearest Lisa,
Here is a birthday video gift from all of the “Yellow Fellow Diarists” around the world.
For months now, everyone has been contributing their messages, art works and various pics in anticipation of your birthday…
The project was a brainchild of ceabelita and the one who deserved the biggest share of credit in terms of making this happen is Mary Ljungberg — for editing and elegantly piecing all these messages of Love and Support for you.
We hope you can find the time to watch it… it’s been really a labor of love and a ‘last minute panic attack’ for some of us… 🙂 😉
Enjoy the video, Happy HAPPY Birthday!!!
Love, love, love from all of us,
–Nerissa
The video is a fusion of your favorite song “Yellow” and a Bengali song “PRAAN” that was adapted from “The Stream of Life” by Rabindranath Tagore.
i think of u specially today
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Beautiful Princess !!
hav a good day : happiness, laugh.. and love
for today and forever
u look really be
u look really beautiful on the last pic 😉
felicidades Lisa!!!,disfruta tú día a tope con tu gente
cuidate mucho
enhorabuena por el video ,está genial
un abrazo
Happy Birthday, dear Lisa!
Best wishes and a lot of warm hugs from me!
>:D<
I hope you're well.
_-
Happy Birthday greetings! Thanks for blogging. Your musings are inspiring. Looking forward to more.
Kat L.
Waimalu, Hawai’i
Happy Birthday Lisa!
Wishing you everlasting happiness!
For some reason this song makes me wanna dance everytime I hear it. I hope it does the same to you.
Enjoy your day =)
*Big hug*
happy birthday my special thinking
& every year better than before
and achieve all your wishes
amante nono
Dear Lisa,
Hey beautiful!! A very very Happy Birthday to you!! Wishing you all the great things in life, hope this day will bring you an extra share of all that makes you happiest.
Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Count your age by friends, not years…
May GOD be always with you and fulfil all your wishes…
Njoy your time in Goa…
This one’s for you…Please check it out…
http://www.123greetings.com/birthday/happy_birthday/birthday103.html
Beautiful Lady,
Happy Birthday and wish you all the best.
Happy Birthday Lisa!
QUE SEA UN DIA MUY ESPECIAL Y QUE TODOS TUS AÑOS ESTEN LLENOS DE ALEGRIAS. TQM
Hi Lisa
It is still April 3 on this side of the world. I am here celebrating my son’s 12th bday today and thinking about yours tomorrow. I should be going to Easter Mass with my family (Easter Sunday is the day Jesus rose from the dead btw). What a perfect day to have a bday. If I don’t get the chance “Happy Birthday” Lisa Ray – You and Bobcat will be in my prayer as usual.
Dearest Lisa,
My birthday poem and wishes for you…
“On Your Day”
This high moment of Celebration and Resurrection
The hands of Destiny synchronized its mystery
Its purpose is beyond one’s comprehension
But the message is clear: You are a gift of Rebirth
You transcended last year’s ocean of changes and curveballs
You affirmed Life despite the gray skies and steep humps
Those molten core shifts, odysseys and metamorphoses
They just proved how poised you are for Greatness
A new realm is unfolding with many synapses of promises
Hopes that are miles long and wishes that are all in the coming
Today is your day; Your big moment that marked the change
Of a new Life intensely magnified by the mysticism of the cosmic
Behind each statement are fervent wishes and my prayers
For all of your Heart’s Desire to manifest and form into reality
The warmth and bubble of all your love ones presence to surround you
Where their infectious brio bring enthusiastic rapture to your Soul
Extensive arrays of opportunities that add more palettes to your art
May all your dreams throb intensely to stem out from you
Easy passports to great Abundance and greater Wealth
All of which you richly deserved and it’s your innate birthright
Extraordinary peaks of Enchantments wherever you tread
Serenity of knowing you have a Home within
A fountain of possibilities within your Heart and Mind
Continuous Spiritual Transcendence that bestows light
As you carry on with your Spiritual path to Enlightenment
I pray tranquility and deeper insights to permeate in you
Unwavering internal fortitude to always aid you in your journeys
Kaleidoscope of soul-enriching experiences that deepen your smile
My greatest wish is of course your continued Health and Wellbeing
A cure for the ‘bitse’, may its dark shadows no longer haunt you
Healing Powers of the Divine to always keep you safe and thriving
For You are a masterpiece of Life and YOU are worth Celebrating!!
Happy, HAPPY Birthday!!!
–NP
Habibti,
Happy Birthday… 🙂 🙂
Happy Easter too… 🙂
The new life has come. Enjoy it. 🙂
Hate can not say other things. English limited…
PERO… SABES QUE ESTÁS EN MI CORAZÓN CON HERMOSOS RECUERDOS DE TU VIAJE AQUÍ. ESO NO SE PIERDE JAMÁS.
With all my best wishes, like always,
Ximena. 🙂 🙂
FFF!!!
Fabulous!! 🙂
Like always…
Thank God for the video. Panick attack … Ufff!!! Just in time… 🙂 🙂
Hugs to you,
Ximena.
Dear Lisa Our ‘Yellow Sunshine’,
As a Soul rejoicing the Resurrection and Celebration of a fellow Soul, I am one with you in this new rite of passage in your Life…
Know that I Celebrate you and I am forever grateful for all the things that I learned from you…
The many times that Life becomes easier to deal with because of your exemplary and shining example.
More beautiful voyages and heart-warming adventures for you!!
A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
With happiness of a wishing in my heart,
–Nerissa
PS:
Here are more birthday messages up in my sleeve:
http://behindmyscenes-np.blogspot.com/search/label/Yellow%20Birthday%20Messages
HAPPY EASTER as well 🙂 😉
Lisaraniray, Lisa, Lisita,Talita, Habibti, Beatiful Princess:
Como olvidar, tu cumpleaños ?,… sí es Hoy, Es un día muy especial. 04 Abril 2010
* F E L I Z C U M P L E A Ñ O S * : Lisitaaaa !! *
Mil Felicidades ! Happy Birhday to you !!
Espero que el día de Hoy, recibas un rico pastel,… mmmh
y muchas muestras de cariño de las personas que se encuentran a tu alrededor…
We “Yellow Fellow Diarists” Te queremos con todo nuestro corazón,… y desde aqui te enviamos nuestras muestras de cariño sincero.
En este día y los siguientes, ten muy presente que “DIOS ES UN AMOR”, en toda la extención de la palabra ya que te ha concedido vivir un año más de vida y eso es lo más importante,….. pidamosle que nos permita vivir muchos, muchos años más, para seguir compartiendo momentos tan agradables como este día…
Lisita:….Te esperan muchas cosas bonitas por vivir, gente interesante y lugares maravillos por conocer,… ( México )
Filipinas, Turquía, Colombia, Chile, España, Hungría, China,
Italia,Venezula,Russia,EUA,Brasil,Panama,Francia,Argentina que ya conociste….
Woow !! gente en Todo el mundo Te queremos…
Vive cada momento,..
Ve a donde quieras ir,…..Haz lo que quiera hacer,
El mundo es tuyo,…disfrutalo!
Siempre estaré contigo. Te quierooooo
Sonríe !!
Dios te bendiga !!
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In English,…….
How to forget your birthday ?,… it is today, is a very special day. April 4th 2010
Lisiitaa * Happy Birhday to you *!!
I hope that today, receive a rich cake, … mmmh
and many signs of affection of the people who are around you …
We “Yellow Fellow Diarists” We love you with all our heart, … and from here we send our sincere expressions of affection.
In this day and the following, keep in mind that “GOD IS A LOVE” throughout the extension of the word, because he has given you to live another year of life and that is the most important thing ,….. Let us pray him, that we can live many, many more years to continue to share enjoyable moments as this day …
Lisita :…. awaiting you to live, many beautiful things, interesting people and wonderful places to know … (Mexico)
Philippines, Turkey, Colombia, Chile, Spain, Hungary, China,
Italy, Venezula, Russia, USA, Brazil, Panama, France, Argentina you already know ….
Woow! All people in the world you want …
Live every moment ..
Go where you go ,….. Do what you want to do,
The world is yours … enjoy!
always be with you
Smile !!
God Bless You!
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Aqui te envío la canción de las mañanitas, por un cumpleaños Feliz,… dedicada especialmente para tí,… de mi Papacitoooooooo,…. Alejandro Fernandez,..
You have no idea… thank God it made it on time 🙂 😉
I’m really happy with the results 🙂 🙂 🙂
Mary did an excellent job at editing it, BIG round of applause to her!!
Thanks for reading the poem 😉
BIGGEST Hug for you!!
Muchas gracias for watching 🙂 😉
hey happy birthday !!! 🙂
happy birthday !!! 🙂
Happy Birthday~ Lisa…
I love you~ (It’s not enough for me to say it a thousand time.)
Love and blessing sending from June Shuan in Kenting Spring Music Festival, Taiwan
Woow !! NERISSA:
Excellent work *
( behindmyscenes, and video de pictures of Lisa )
that imagination and creativity to yours, congratulations!!
here shows the deep affection you feel for Lisa Ray,..
She inspires us with his great heart and strength.
I am more happy since I’ve known, and too since I am part of group: “Yellow Fellow Diarists” around the world.
….and continue the party, yuppie!, …for this great event.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! ( LISITA )
Greetings from: México.
(I’m learning English)
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pd. WELCOME TO MY FOLLOWERS TWITTER. smile !!
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My dear Lisa,
We wish you happy birthday on this sunny Easter Sunday!
We wish you much happiness and yellow strength in your life and ask God that all your dreams which you want to realize will come true.
Hopefully you can celebrate your birthday all the beloved around you, your Dad and your Bobcat can join to us on this great day.
A very difficult year is behind you, we all know this, that’s why this present birthday is a special one. You opened your life for us, shared all your experiences with us with your unique sense of humour. You made us laugh and cry at the same time.
You taught us for love, for appreciating all moments in time, and through your wonderful blog you gave us the most important thing that one can receive from life – beautiful friendships and love.
We all want to give this back to you supporting you wherever you are, spreading the yellow words, sending yellow strength to you.
We wish you again happy birthday, we are all proud of you!
With love and respect
Kati from Hungary & Patricia (Chile)
bon anniversaire !!!
je vous souhaite de la joie, de la serenité encore et encore…
je vous embrasse et vous souhaite toujours le meilleur…
Un hoy bien vivido hace que cada ayer sea un sueño feliz y cada amanecer una visión de esperanza. Tú te mereces toda una vida de amaneceres hermosos. ¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS!
A well lived today does that every yesterday is a happy dream and every dawn a vision of hope. You deserve the whole life of beautiful dawns. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Here I leave you like I give Pablo Neruda poetry:
Muere lentamente quien no viaja,
quien no lee,
quien no oye música,
quien no encuentra gracia en sí mismo.
Muere lentamente
quien destruye su amor propio,
quien no se deja ayudar.
Muere lentamente
quien se transforma en esclavo del hábito
repitiendo todos los días los mismos
trayectos,
quien no cambia de marca,
no se atreve a cambiar el color de su
vestimenta
o bien no conversa con quien no
conoce.
Muere lentamente
quien evita una pasión y su remolino
de emociones,
justamente estas que regresan el brillo
a los ojos y restauran los corazones
destrozados.
Muere lentamente
quien no gira el volante cuando esta infeliz
con su trabajo, o su amor,
quien no arriesga lo cierto ni lo incierto para ir
detrás de un sueño
quien no se permite, ni siquiera una vez en su vida,
huir de los consejos sensatos…
¡Vive hoy!
¡Arriesga hoy!
¡Hazlo hoy!
¡No te dejes morir lentamente!
¡NO TE IMPIDAS SER FELIZ!
“Vivir no es sólo existir,
sino existir y crear,
saber gozar y sufrir
y no dormir sin soñar.
Descansar, es empezar a morir”.
Gregorio Marañon (1887-1960) Médico y escritor español.
Lo que he aprendido en esta vida se resume en poco: Sigue adelante.
Kendra.
Besos querida Lisa.
LISA happy birthday !!!
LOVE
hi lisa,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA and happy easter !!!!
we love you
to france
take care
kissssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
wishing u a very happy birthday dear
Dear Lisa!
Here is wishing that your Birthday
Is just as special as you.
A day packed full of happiness,
That will last th whole year through.
God bless each hour of your special day with
His gifts of love and peace
Wishing you a Birthday filled with warm surprises
Happy Birthday!
Best wishes from Estonia
We are all with you
God bless you!
Dear Lisa,
My sincere best wishes are with you through this testing period in your life. You are doing a phenomenal job! You are truly inspirational and I wish you all the strength.
I am late in knowing about your blog site, but I will be following it regularly from now on.
You are a stunning, beautiful woman, and the Myeloma has not changed that one bit!! 🙂
Please continue to write and keep us informed on how you are doing.
God bless you, always.
Hugs,
Madhu
Happy Birthday Lisa! Thank you for all your wonderful work and movies! All the best wishes for you health! Thank God for what he gave to the world for you! I love you my princess 🙂
Oh, and a VERYYY HAPPPYYY BIRTHDAAAAAYY to you!!! Hope you and your friends are having a brilliant time in Goa!
Wishing this day will bring you an extra share of ALL that makes you happiest..and make you smile 🙂 🙂
Happy Easter too 🙂
Dearest Lisa:
Happy Birthday to U!!!We all love U sooooooooooooooooooo much and hope U had a great birthday today!!!we’ll always be with U in spirit…KISSES 😡
Happy birthday Lisa!
A big kiss from France.
Sylvie.
Hi Marie,
I am feeling the scintillating thrill in the air in this very important ‘Yellow Day” 🙂 😉
It feels like its not only Lisa’s birthday but everyone as well!
So let’s continue the Yellow party, shake-out our bon-bon and most importantly give a BIG toast to the ‘Yellow Sunshine’ for somehow crossing our paths together albeit virtually… 🙂
CHEERS to all of us!!
–NP
PS:
Thanks for your compliment… it warms my Heart 🙂
And good luck with studying English. It’s my fav language.
Lisa,
I wish you happy birthday and all the best in the world.
Katarina from Slovakia
Happy, happy, happy birthday!!! 🙂
Wishing you all the best!
Have a magnificent day!
Hugs,
Mia from Slovenia
hi…. ate lisa;
its easter sunday!!! anyway!!
happy happy birthday to you!!! muahugs!!! you take care always!!! =)
pinaydi from Philippines
happy happy birthday!!! muahugs!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Happy Birthday,Happy Birthday,little Lisa…today is your day~
I love you more than I could express…U are the most beautiful in the universe in my mind…I built a Taj Mahal for you and photoed it and the photo was put into a birthday video for you,I hope you can see and like that ^.^
hope you have great days in India!I really can’t express howhowhow much I love you…!!!!!!!!
much love from China… muah muah muah~~~ :-*
DEAR LISA,
HI AND WISH U A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MAY THE
DREAMS IN UR HEART GET FULFILLED AND MAY U ALWAYS
HAVE NICE PEOPLE AROUND U SPREADING THE ENERGIES
AND ALSO HAVING SOME OF UR AMAZING ENERGIES IN
THEIR LIVES.
WITH OCEANS OF WISHES
SAM
YG
Have a great day for your birthday Lisa ! With a lot of chocolat’s bunny 🙂
Amélie
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Happy Birthday my dear Lisa !
Hey there Lisa, my birthday was on April the 2nd so happy birthday to you too…. I just watched the film “water”, a friend of mine recommended it. Don’t worry I bought it 😉
what can I say, great job for all the team involved…I wasn’t aware of all the things that the film shows…it’s sad, and it gives you even more reasons to want to change world, unjustice, discriminative, unfair world…. Just wanted to say, that you all did great job, I hope you keep doing some of that when you decide to go back to work. I also hope you’re doing good. Thanks for give people like me a different site of the whole picture, including courage!!!! big hug from Spain
I’d been seaching Goa in Google Earth today,it’s a beautiful place and wish you have a very great birthday there today,wish I’m there too 🙂 haha~ I’m already there in spirit so I am very exciting today…wish you also very happy today,cause everytime I think of you,my heart is filled with love…if you happy,I’m more happy.
so much lovelovelovelovelove from China,KISSES :-*
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!
ENJOY YOUR DAY!
ALL MY PRAYERS!
Happy Birthday dear Lisa!!!
May all your wishes come true..
I wish you to be happy,to have only moments of happiness and joy in your life,and I wish you as the Divine Light to guiding you and shine on your life path and make warm in your soul:)
Have a greats moments of joy with your family and friends:)
Have a wonderful day.
Alexandra
Lisa Happy Brithday!!!
I love you so much!!! i love you…
🙂
Hola Marie!!
El video no salió publicado, quizás por problemas con YouTube.
Espero que no te moleste si intento subirlo ahora para Lisa en su cumpleaños.
Happy Birthday, Lisa!! 🙂
(FROM MARIE DE MÉXICO) 🙂
Hugs to you!!!
From Marie (and me too)!! 🙂 🙂
Happy Birthday dear Lisa!
Jacarandaes from Buenos Aires –Argentina,
for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEF6Cv_frr8
A big kiss
Alex
Happy Birthday dear Lisa!
Jacarandaes from Buenos Aires –Argentina,
for you.
A big kiss
Alex
Heyyy que lindaaa Ximena, gracias !!
de hecho andaba algo triste porque no habia podido pasarlo bien, y queria pedir tu apoyo para que me ayudaras a enviarle este video de las mañanitas a Lisitaa,..
y ahorita que voy viendo,… Woow! Excelente!.
Muchas gracias Ximena.
saludos enormes,..
de México…!
Y que sigaa Fiesta !,…
queremoos Pastel !, queremos pastel !
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Heyyy that beatiful Ximena, thanks!
actually got a bit sad because he could not have fun, and I wanted to ask your support to help me to send you this video of Happy Birthday to Lisitaa ..
and now that I see … Woow! Excellent!.
Ximena thank you very much.
huge greetings ..
Mexico …!
And to continue the party ,……
we want cake ! we want cake !
Dear Lisa Happy Birthday! @—\——-
Love You so much!
This Special Day I’d like to Thank your parents for giving YOU to This World, to all of us.
You are an inspiration, you’re amazing!
Keep on smiling!
With all my love and best wishes
Irene, Russia
Happy birthday to you!!!
Hope you have the best day of your life!!!, we miss you and your work so much!!, but it’s good to know you’re feeling well with that great smile you’ve always have on your face!!
“…Look at the stars..look how they shine for you..and all the things that you do..”
🙂
Miss you georgeous and awesome girl!!!
Jessica.
From Mexico
hola!! espero no haber llegado tarde, le deseo todo lo mejor y que DIOS la guarde en todo momento mi cariño hacia usted deseando que halla tenido un buen día junto a sus seres queridos FELIZ CUMPLEAÑO besos (chile)
Hi Lisa,
(Belated) HAPPY BIRTH DAY.
Sorry, I was not knowing your b’day. I got to know only from fellow yellow dieriests.
I know too less about you. I have not watched even a single movie of yours. But still I feel a amazing closeness with you.
May Krsna bless you.
May all your dreams come true this year.
Love
Nikhil
Happy Birthday … I recently look water, your acting is great.
I hope you better soon. You have beautiful eyes.
Greetings from mexico.
I hope you come to my country someday. to see you.
May God protect you.
Sorry my bad English
Hey Lisa.I just want to say…Please be strong…keep the flame on your mind, your heart…you’re mean many to me…
PRINCESS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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MAY ALL YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE
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hola bonita de nuevo yo desde Colombia feliz cumpleaños en españoly ahí te va el tormento de mi vida en ingles jajajaja espero por lo menos hacerme entender…..
Smooth happy birthday did not write you the day of exact by that it found me of holidays with my family and fellow, but do not forget me of you, wish you the best in your life that fill you of blessings of the god that was the same all love you to the equal that many of us the mortal, wish you a lot of happinesses sent you an embrace and a big kiss
ciao bonita besos =P
Happy Birthday Lisa!
From your hill billy cousin south of the north pole.
Love,
Kareen
Hi Lisa,
Really glad to hear that you are on the road to recovery, whilst reading the yellow diaries it gives me joy, sadness and hope in the human spirit.
I look forward to seeing you on the big screen in the near future.
Regards
Habib
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVCbNx01t2A Wishing you a quick & speedy recovery, & a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Happy Birthday Lisa:>
I pray for you everyday.
Cheer up !!
Hello Nerissa,
That was a thoughtful video that you and your yellow bloggers created for Lisa for her birthday. I’m sure she will appreciate it very much.
With all this positive energy surging through this blog it can only be green lights all the way. I am all for green lights and happy endings.
I spent Easter with a friend of mine whom is going through chemo right now, she will finish chemo in August. We had a lovely dinner that she somehow had the energy to make, but I insisted on doing the dishes. Then I asked her if she wanted to go for ride to the beach, I wanted her to listen to a friend of mine’s cd that he had given me. (www.joelzoss.com) I met him at a Bonnie Raitt concert and he took me backstage to meet Bonnie, they are old friends…Joel is a talented musician.
So off my friend and I went with the music blaring to beautiful Jupiter Isand Beach located in Florida. That acqua green pond of water called The Atlantic Ocean is where we each claimed a spot of sand with our beach chairs. What a perfect beach day it was with all of the tourists burning nicely. (Please beach people use sunscreen. )
We had alot to catch up on and she shared her thoughts of the future with me. She is now able to get thru the day without the painkillers she had needed before. Yes her long dark hair had fallen out but luckily hair grows back. Her latest CAT/PET scans revealed that the cancer had been eradicated. No signs of the large tumor, it is gone. Good riddance! She showed me the port that she has in her upper chest, looks kind of sci fi to me, this is where they inject the chemo cocktail via an needle. She takes a drug called Nupogen which helps the process.
It felt really good to spend time with my friend. One never knows when the winds of change may alter one’s life. Two years ago she and I were out and about laughing and dancing to reggae music in outdoor tiki beach bars. 2 Care free spirts for sure.
When I said goodbye on Easter Sunday to my friend I had a knotted feeling in my solar plexus. I wanted to give her a deck of cards of all Aces. I wanted to assure her that it’s green lights all the way. Pass Go and be sure to collect your $200.00 dollars just like you do with the gameboard Monopoly. Except I think she should pass go again and again just because she can.
She knows me well enough to know that I wish her green lights, sunny beaches and jackpots all the way…like I wish for everyone…
Lisa, Nerissa and Yellow Bloggers,
I mentioned in my post above my musician friend whose name is Joel Zoss. His website is http://www.joelzoss.com
Joel’s latest cd is titled Lila and is dedicated to his wife who passed away from colon cancer 2 years ago.
Joyeux anniversaire Lisa !!
I’m french, i prefer speak french because my english is not so good 😦 sorry
J’espère que cette nouvelle année t’apporteras la guérison et pleins de choses dans ta vie.
Ton combat doit continuer et tu dois le gagner parce que tu as déjà une belle carrière derrière toi mais celle qui t’attends est d’autant plus belle!!
Garde ta sérénité et ta joie de vivre !!
Take care and be happy !! 🙂
Aurélie from France !!
Witaj Lisa,
nie mam pojęcia czy czytasz komentarze na swoim blogu, a tym bardziej- czy pamiętasz polski. Mam taką nadzieję.
Wszystkiego Najlepszego z okazji urodzin!
Siły, która daje chęć życia, wiary w siebie, ludzi, naturę, bo to wszystko czyni cuda..
Jakie miejsca planujesz jeszcze zobaczyć? Czy również kraj swojej matki?
To ja się tu wcisnę i dołączę do pozdrowień z Polski. 🙂
Fight like a… snowleopardini, Lisa!
So, did you save a piece of your bday cake for me? Or, did Tishani eat it all Grrrr. No worries, save two pieces next bday. Whos that gal in the ppiccture? Baby doll, we love you :). Come back soon. {Hugs}
Hello Lisa and happy belated birthday! Just saw you for the first time in your film, “I Can’t Think Straight”. Great film! Evidently I have been under a rock!! Then I found your fantastic blog. Bravo girl! You are gorgeous outside and inside! Your writing is enlightened, hilarious, intelligent and witty! I’m 35 working my way to become a physician in CA and will work with Doctors Without Borders- my true passion. I am excited to read all of your blogs from the beginning and to see more of your films. I have a strong feeling you are helping millions of people, Lisa!!
Looking forward to your book as well!
(Who knows if this is logistically possible, but it would be such an honor to receive an acknowledgment that you perused my little note here.)
Cheers and a happy laughing hug!
Leah (Northern Cali)
Dear Lisa & Everyone…
I hope that your birthday filled you with many meaningful things that continually lift your Soul to the greatest heights of Gratitude.
I usually don’t put a link of my blog in here if it’s not ‘yellow’ related but I just want to share my experience about ‘delving deeper’ through meditation…
http://behindmyscenes-np.blogspot.com/2010/04/delving-deeper.html
Actually, I wanted to ask you ever since if you can share your experiences about doing a Vipassana meditation in your future writings….
Since last year, I have been toying with the idea of doing a Vipassana… but I don’t think I have the chops yet to go to a 10 days silent meditation wherein you can’t talk to anyone and there is no form of any stimulation allowed during the course of the retreat.
It will be nice and it will definitely be helpful to know how you go about it?
Especially the part where one literally don’t talk and how do you go about keeping yourself together? It seems too rigid and arduous…
And why is it that they say that “Spiritual investigation is and always has been a product of methodical discipline.”?
Anyway, I am just increasingly curious about all these things…
I do pray that plenty of wonderful things continuously abound in your Life & Love.
May everything that is divine seeps into your Spirit with mysterious symmetries that make you whole.
Om Mani Padme Hum…
With love and deep gratitude,
–Nerissa
HELLO MY EMERAL-EYED !!!
I hope you are fine….
I did not write for a week.I was write my days very very long.But I thought maybe you bored.And I stoped.:-)
I missed to write 🙂 I want to write something to you dear Lisa ray.I did not write but maybe you know or not I dont know..I drew some pictures for you.I accused to being obsession:-(
I want to explain to you dear Lisa Ray.Maybe it is not nessesary but I want.
I am a Volunteer teacher in the orphanage.I taught painting courses and jewelry design.I am working a lot of motherless and fatherless children.I am making a lot of drawing and of course sometimes I am drawing for you.
When my students make their own pictures,I do pictures.I dont walk continuous among the benches.My students are so motivated with this system.I always do picture for my family,for my friends and for myself.now I’ve included you.
And these days I am working for April 23.This date our children’s festival.This festival has only here and children all over the world come to here.celebrations are made..children will be our guests.We are around them in our city.I can not take a child this year.Because I have to work.And of course my husband can not do this responsibility:-)
I created a necklace.I put my doughters photos on it.If I could send to you.Maybe It could be good gift for your birthday.I am sure you like it.It is not big I think you like small jewels from the big one.only guess…I did not see big jewel on your bosom.
The hard days waiting me dear Lisa Ray.I will celebrate The Children Festival with motherless and fatherless children.We will open the exhibition. but they do..I’ll watch.I’ll take my family and my children.They havent got family:-(
there is hunger in the world dear Lisa Ray.But worst hunger is for love 😦 able to express love is very important for me.
If I love someone with my heart I must show …Woman,man,child ….no mather.What people think,do not care for me.!!! without malice I kiss , I smell , I put on my chest that their beatiful heads…Anything and anyone can not change this…Never !!! It is me….
Even the flowers will blossom with love.If people want to see how So they see like that…yes I am valued you.I’ve likened my daughter to you.Because of this reason you are different for me.
There are some accusations and I really do not deserve:-( you are my imagine friend,you are my emerald-eyed and my doughter is my autumn-eyed LISA=DOĞA .you are as my sister.I have a sister we have some problems.I dont see and talk with her.You dont talk me but I can talk with you.It means,sharing more than from my older sister.How can I explain more I dont know dear Lisa Ray.
eventually…You’re precious for me !!! and I’ll show you always!!! Until then you dont want…
TODAY…Your happiness be very much as rain drops…
ALL THE BLUE ROSES IN THE WORLD TO YOU…..
LISA=DOĞA
Dear Jo,
The word “green light” is divine for me especially in terms of the film lingo. It’s every filmmaker’s word that we love to hear and have!!
It’s heartwarming to know that your friend is getting better and better. I also wish her spades & spades of aces and continued Health.
Your friend is a trooper and with the way you described her, I Believe she will be acing this twist in her Life.
It sucks when Life spun into a different orbit not favorable to our liking but C’est la vie..
All we can do is make the best of whatever is given or thrown at us…
I’ll be keeping her as well in my prayers.
Will check out Joel Zoss 🙂
Sending more ‘green lights’ for you & your friend,
–Nerissa
Hello Nerissa,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post. You are quite the little poet, I read the beautiful birthday poem that you created for Lisa. I visted your blog and see that you are an emerging filmmaker. I have worked in video/film production for years and many college students visited my office in hopes of securing a job and I’d always joke with them to go back to school for a law or medical degree. Yet- from your blog I do get a sense that you have a real passion for the creative and filmmaking. If you have a special script and story that you want to tell, spend time with it in your mind and see it as a finished project. Pour your utmost beliefs into and consider it your best friend and the law of attraction will take care of the details.
I used to love it when Independent Filmmakers would drop by the office with their films. I remember one film in particular, two friends who wrote and had cameo roles in their film called Shut Up and Kiss Me. The film was shot here in Florida and they were able to find distribution for it. I recall a few sci films and horror films rolling across my desk at well. The beauty in the creative world of films is that you have carte blanche in how you express yourself, infinity of words, sounds and visuals at your fingertips. To simplify it, you take a blank sheet of paper and fold it in half, one side has the visual/and the other side has the audio and the rest is up to you. A beginning, middle and ending. You WOW your audiences, make them sob, laugh, feel uncomforable, relax them, excite them….it’s all up to you….your story coming to life and taking that first breath. Have fun with it, life is supposed to be fun…at least that is what the little hobbit who lives in my mailbox told me morning as he handed me my mail. I love those little hobbits!
The Sky is Wide Open…
I wish that hobbit who lives in my mailbox would buy me a new pair of glasses, ones that I can actually see through.
Lisa…please be strong…fighting and fighting….we always beside u and hope u wishes all best …we love u…and waiting u come back to us sooo…
your huge fan from Vietnam
Hi Lisa Happy Birthday God Bless You. Always trust only in him we have peace and hope.
Desde Venezuela
Dear Lisa:
I am a hematopathologist with a lot of experience in hematologic malignancies, at the Vancouver General Hospital. I was sad to find out about your myeloma.
Donna Reece is a world famous myeloma specialist in Toronto. I am sure you have seen her. Myeloma is not as hopeless as it used to be in 70′ and 80’s, when the survival was 5-10%. Lots of new meds. One of your Bangla-babu in Arkansas 15 years ago started using Thalidomide, completely changing the outlook for this disease.
Most patients will get an autologous stem cell transplant at some stage. You are fortunate that way; many of my South Asian patients with acute myeloid leukemia, another type of blood cancer, need stem cells from others, and it is very difficult to find a match. May be you want to take up this cause. I have also talked to Priya Dutt (I am on the Board of Nargis Dutt Cancer Foundation). There is a leukemia survivor here in Vancouver, about your age, by the name of Mindy Johal, who has started A Second Chance Leukemia Society. She raise awareness for blood cancer related issues in South Asians.
Best wishes
Bakul I. Dalal
I visit Bharat every year, lecturing about blood cancer, in different cities. Over the year I have come to know many hem-onc colleagues there. If you need any assistance while traveling there, let me know.
Hi Jo,
I sure will keep it in mind about “considering it my best friend”…
You have no idea how I am DEEPLY & UTTERLY Passionate about Films and Directing for more than a decade now!!
Time was when I eat, breathe and live it 24/7… though now, I am aiming more for a ‘balance Life’…
Do know that you have all the wonderful People and creatures of “middle-earth” that are also sending you stuff (not just the hobbits), so be sure to be ready to receive a lot more than a pair of new glasses!!
The myriad forces of The Universe hear even the silent wishes of our Hearts…
With that, much Blessings for you,
–Nerissa
PS:
I also wear glasses (when at home) and contacts (when going out) to hide my geeky side 🙂 😉
querida lisa de nuevo yo jajajaj desde colombia…..
hi hoping that you connect anything to talk to you soon I hope you see this message ok take care kisses Lisa ray
chao….
hola lisa de nuevo yo desde Colombia jajajajaja por favor léelo….
hi hoping that you connect anything to talk to you soon I hope you see this message ok take care kisses Lisa ray
Hello! Good morning! Good afternoon! Good evening!
How are you?
I so long did not dare to write.
Thanks you for your diaries! thanks you. You need to write a book or books. it is yours.
You are very good person so talented, I feel it when I read your diaries. Because of it my soul is filled with warmth.
I wish you the very best (sorry for my english, maybe I wrote something wrong)
kamila
from far Kazakhstan
The external journey is a symbol of the interior journey. There are so many spiritual journeys of peregrination to connect the spirit with the sacredness (I suggest to you te way of St James-camino de Santiago- in Spain)…
and finally discovering that the sacredness, the infinite, are in you, the sacredness is you…
I hope you find what you are looking for, but remember that it only can be found Here and Now, the Real is Real always…
Forgive the nonsense that I say
Humbly yours…
Babe, wheres u? ekkada unnavu? Getting ready to hop back to this side of the planet? I miss you my imaginary friend! You know, I am writing an email to you about nonsensical stuff in my head right now. 😛 Crummy eh
tc beautiful
Didn’t see your writting here one month?Come back and tell us something about u
PRINCESS
THIS IS PRESCRIPTION FOR YOU
A CUTE SMILE FOR BREAKFAST
MORE LAUGHS FOR LUNCH
LOTS OF HAPPINESS FOR DINNER
LOVE N MISS U PRINCESS
Lisa,
This weekend I watched one of your movies…”I can’t think straight.” I thought you were fantastic and wondered what other work you may have done. Then I googled you. Okay, don’t laugh…but I didn’t know you were such a big deal 🙂 Then, I read your story. I think there was a reason I “discovered” you. I’ve been meaning to sign up for the Be A Match Bone Marrow Registry for years, and just kept putting it off. I just finished the application and sent it my money for the test kit.
I’m a healthy, 35 year old (who happens to have a yellow bedroom and a super sweet dad too), but I can’t image what you are going through and can’t give you any words of wisdom. I can tell you that I “ran into you” last weekend, you inspired me, and hopefully I’ll be able to help someone someday.
All the best,
Emily
Detroit, Michigan
You have to know something : YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
The positive energy that you spread is getting and touching every single person .
You are strong as a rock with a wonderful soul. You know it , we know it .
I usually don’t write on blogs , put a person like you needs to be reminded how great you are , and how some few words, few smile, are making a huge difference to many people .
We are fighting with you and praying for you .
You had the wisdom act of sharing what you are going through. It needs courage . But we all know that is more than courage, it wisdom & generosity & altruism .
You rock. don’t lose the music in you 😉
Raya ,
Ps : you have a very subtile humor , don’t lose it , it look greater than a dress on you 🙂
raya
You have to know something : YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE.
The positive energy that you spread is getting and touching every single person .
You are strong as a rock with a wonderful soul. You know it , we know it .
I usually don’t write on blogs , put a person like you needs to be reminded how great you are , and how some few words, few smile, are making a huge difference to many people .
We are fighting with you and praying for you .
You had the wisdom act of sharing what you are going through. It needs courage . But we all know that is more than courage, it wisdom & generosity & altruism .
You rock. don’t lose the music in you
Raya ,
Ps : you have a very subtile humor , don’t lose it , it look greater than a dress on you
Hey babe!
First of all I hope you’re doing better then I don’t a pizza fresh outta the oven which i’m sure you are cus you’re just amazing like that, lol um so i know that treat ment is going on for ur cancer i hope that everything turns out perfect…you know what Lisa Ray the name says it all just like rays of the sun never stop shining even when the clouds try to stop it, it always stays strong just like those rays be strong clouds come and go but the sun never stop shining, and you should never stop fighting till the last moment which i know that you will fight i have faith in you and i also know that you will win this war!!! I really wish to talk to you once not because ahh ur a celebrity and all that but just cus i think atleast from what i’ve heard you seem like a great person to who every one should know not just for the talent but as who u are inside. well i dont wanna say all these things and later face dissappointment when u might not reply so im going to shut up now lol. well take care lisa and i’d be very happy if u email back but if u can’t i totally understand that too! 🙂 Take care
This is a part of “The Prophet”, a very beautiful and emotional book…
for you with a big hug…
And an orator said, “Speak to us of Freedom.”
And he answered:
At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,
Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.
Ay, in the grove of the temple and in the shadow of the citadel I have seen the freest among you wear their freedom as a yoke and a handcuff.
And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment.
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
And how shall you rise beyond your days and nights unless you break the chains which you at the dawn of your understanding have fastened around your noon hour?
In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle the eyes.
And what is it but fragments of your own self you would discard that you may become free?
If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead.
You cannot erase it by burning your law books nor by washing the foreheads of your judges, though you pour the sea upon them.
And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their won pride?
And if it is a care you would cast off, that care has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.
And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.
And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.
And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.”
Hola,soy española, no se mucho inglés pero voy a intentar escribirte mi mensaje en inglés:
I really like your interpretacions, but most like your soul is as beautiful as all you. Looking in your eyes can almost see your heart, you have the strength to overcome your illness, so i`m sure that soom you´ll be fine forever.
I wish you all the best.
My birthday is in april as yours.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA RAY
i wish you all the best
Hello Lisa!! I’m Melina from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Recently saw a few of your films and was really motivated for the storylines and strong characters that you’ve played. But anyway…i just wanted to extend my support and best wishes for you since i read that you are fighting ( and i’m sure that beating!) a type of cancer.
Please accept my best and sincere regards!!!
what up Goa/T-town? Babe, hope you are doing good. Missing you sweetum. 10 days and counting ;). tc
kal chaudviki raat thi
kuch ne kaha, yeh chaand hai
kuch ne kaha, chehera thera (comparison limited to beauty, not shape)
iss blog mein kisse milae
hum se tho chuti mehefilae (:-P)
har shaksh tera naam le
har shaksh deewana tera
jungle tere, parbat tere
basti teri, sehera tera
Sunday, 11th April, 2010:
To My Virtuous One……Lisa Rani RAY.
Happy 1st Renewed Birthday! this is one week late but I say better late than never!
I would not have been able to forgive myself if I did not wish you 1st Renewed Birthday……. for those who might question- renewed- well that’s just what it is and how I feel about this birthday for you.
God Bless You baby girl and keep you safe,filled with joy unspeakable, Love unending, strength renewed each day as an eagle and may you soar, heights unlimited for you deserve all this and more!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to Ceabelita,Nerissa and Mary for the wonderfull and truly beautiful video tribute for your birthday.
Well done girls and stay strong in your commitment to support our ANGEL—– Lisa Rani RAY. God Bless You All and all fellow Yellow Diarists.
Take care Lisa and we miss your unique words …write soon and keep on smiling whilst I’ll keep on walking
( Johnny Walker and coconut water) – cheers darling.. Happy Birthday!
All My Love–rosemarieramnarine@yahoo.com.
Hey Lisa!
I’m 22, from Toronto. Just watched Water again last night, for the millionth time. That movie is truly a masterpiece.
Jai Shree Krishna. 108 times a day.
It’s much more powerful than a simple, mere line on a script. =)
Check out the Krishna temple on Avenue road when you’re back in the tdot sometime. 8pm sharp on Sundays, during the final aarti. The atmosphere is undilutedly divine.
All the best.
Hi Rosemarie,
Thanks for watching and for the acknowledgment.
Seeing to it that this birthday video got made was the only thing that made me cut off my days of meditation retreat…
We are very happy that a lot of People are watching it 🙂 😉
Forever here to support,
–NP
Lots of Sunshine your way!
Hi Lisa.
I am new to blogging so not sure if you will see/read/reply to this.
My name is Michelle and I am 41. And like you I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma in June 2009. I am British but live in Florida.
I am still at the smouldering stage and my oncologist has said that my course of treatment will be chemo and stem cell treatment much like yours.
Michelle
LA People! Once in a life time chance to meet Lisa!
Pass the great news to everyone, see you there!
I’ll be there for sure, anything for Lisa & the greater good!
http://www.indianfilmfestival.org/newsdesc.php?pid=26
Lisa Ray and Dilip Mehta will be in attendance at the film’s Los Angeles premiere. The event will benefit the Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research (www.imbcr.org), an independent non-profit research institute working to find improved treatment and a cure for multiple myeloma.
OPENING NIGHT GALA – APRIL 20, 7:30 PM
ArcLight Hollywood
The Opening Night Gala will officially set the eighth annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles into motion. Get ready for a red carpet gala and the los Angeles premiere of COOKING WITH STELLA directed by Dilip Mehta. The film reunites star Lisa Ray with producer and co-writer Deepa Mehta. The two had previously worked together on BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD and the critically acclaimed WATER. Dilip Mehta and Lisa Ray will be in attendance. The Gala will benefit the Institute for Myeloma & Bone Cancer Research, an independent non-profit research institute working to find improved treatment and a cure for multiple myeloma. With support from the Screen Actors Guild, the Canadian Consulate of Los Angeles, and Telefilm Canada, the Opening Night Gala will be sponsored by Chakra Cuisine and Divya Wines, specifically created to be paired with Indian cuisine.
Hi Lisa,
Its been a long time since I posted any comments and though I have been away for almost 5 months – I just want to say – you are never far away from my thoughts and prayers….
I guess I have a lot of ‘catching’ up of what’s happening, but I just want to say this …
* HAPPY BELATED B/DAY GREETINGS (sorry did not mean to miss this special day of yous)
* Congratulations on your recovery and you look as wonderfully beautiful as ever (I just saw the video with Shamim in India)…u look really radiant
BB, BG, BSmiling Always
MF
loved how u wrote ‘ Sometimes the world is so beautiful and so fierce I can feel my heart tear.’…. breathtaking clarity of feeling AND expression…
i am a doctor, just passed out from college.. completed my mbbs…
the lesson of utter courage, tenacity and optimism that u’ve taught me… i hope to keep with me always..
my prayers and regards.
HELLO MY EMERALD-EYED !!!
I am sure you are fine and I am happy for you dear Lisa Ray…
I’m living by the sea. My 3 sides surrounded with the sea.I know of sea birds. I love them. I got into the boat in the spring and summer months with my doughters. For To feed the seagulls.If they are white it means they are young.the black spots they get older.
sometimes,I sit on the bench watching the sea.then I follow Cormorants.I think you know that birds..I love them very very much. The Cormorant bird is very mysterious. Before,They are swimming on the water. After You look ,oo-ooo..It lost !!! You’ll wonder,It went to which side? What should I look in the direction.I wonder if I am able to see again? Maybe you see, maybe you can not see it.This is Cormorant bird’s feature. It is very mysterious and very special for me.
MERHABA (HELLO) !! my emerald eyed,my blue rose,my Simurg,hello my Cormorant 🙂
Have a nice day..
LISA=DOĞA
Dear Lisa,
Hey Lisa! How r u?? Its Poila Baisakh today so here’s wishing u a Shuvo Nababarsho!! I wish u for a double dose of health and happiness topped with loads of good fortune!!
HAPPY BENGALI NEW YEAR!!
P.S. I Love You.
When I saw you in an interview, short hair, the laughter of a child, infinity in your eyes, I realized that you change. A new light shine around you. You became a Master of Life.
When I read your words here, are real, with no trace of makeup, and go straight from your heart to ours. You touch my heart.
You said: ”Illness is alchemy”. It’s true for you, not for all people, but you transform yourself.
Thanks for teaching me, thanks for sharing your inner change that is reflected in many small details from you. I hope you be around for some time more. It’s my wish.
places always enthralls us ,,,
coz most of the places are strange ,,,
humans are also strange
a travel to the heart of humans also enthralls us ,,
u r lucky ,,
coz u do both travels .
with luv,,
rashi
Babe, I hope you have already travelled back to T-Town or Cal, cuz this plume of volcanic ash (55K feet high) in iceland has disrupted flights out-of/flying-over UK, Holland etc. Please travel safe chica!
Week ago I was sitting with my mom talking about the two films that I saw “Water” and “I Can’t Think Straight” and while talking I mentioned that you were gone through treatment for MM. The first thing that she mentioned that prayer is needed. I asked her “Mom why would you do that for a person that we don’t know? Yet alone a “famous” person.
In her stern response my mom said “No matter how rich, famous, poor or unknown. Man, woman or child that we are all god’s children….period. I was floored when she said that, I didn’t question it anymore and wrote my letter and passed along to her for the ministers at her church.
Its a given that you will be around to see more of the world and do the work that you love so much. I hope that I am around to see more of it as I have now told my friends that you are the “female Johnny Depp” since you chose projects that capture your spirit which I love so much.
hope to hear from you soon!!
Namaste 😉
16 th April, 2010.
6 pm….. Just finished working….
To My Darling Lisa Rani Ray…
Wherever you are at this present moment , just know that this is one person ( Rosemarie) who will always be one step behind and will never falter in my support to you ,not just when you needed us fans the most, but through it ALL!
Keep well, keep safe and GOD BE WITH YOU and your loved ones always!
Have a great week end and I’ll write soon….
All my Love, Rosemarie Ramnarine.
We all are with u in ur crusade against cancer….God Bless
Hello Lisa,
Well wishes, light and love from an American fan. You and your blog are an inspiration. Thank you for being you and for doing what you do. My love, thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
Blessings,
Jan
Hello Lisa,
~ I am puerto rican and have recently learned about you and your movies and even culture. I wish you nothing but the best now and always. You are so wonderful and talented. Wonderful and amazing things are in store for magnificent people like yourself. xo
Ever Dearest Lisa,
In your long absence, I all the more feel how You and the stories of your Life have become an essential part of my own Life…
You added a different depth to how I define Myself…
Sometimes even if we never meet a person, they are just near and dear to us like our love ones who are beside us.
Not only You have become a constant source of Inspiration in the many challenges I have faced as of late, You also become a Person whom I Greatly care for… and always know that I support you through & through especially regarding your Health.
With these things said, I like to express my concern. I truly worry about you when we haven’t heard from you for a very long while …
It is my hope that you are just taking your time for introspection or is just plainly busy, and that you are very much well and is still ahead of schedule in terms of your full recovery.
It is also a part of my prayers that your eye has fully healed as well.
Like in the book of Elizabeth Gilbert, I am sending you ‘The Bat-Phone to the Universe’. It’s an open round-the-clock 24/7 channel to the Divine… to help you in every way you need or to just simply speed up the process of getting your Heart’s every desire.
Believe it or not, I do pray for you EVERY single day and I am always sending Positive Energies to all the Higher Forces out there — which is the source of everything that stirs our Souls to sing and dance all the way through our Wholeness.
I also hope that your ‘ReBirthday’ went real well and that everything about it gave a much profound glow of Love that fills your Heart with immense Gratitude.
From a fellow Soul who genuinely care,
–Nerissa
PS:
I really do miss you and your words that sometimes help Move Mountains…
Lisa, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer, was told she had three months to live and given a prescription for valium to help calm her anxiety about it. She went home and thought about it and when we returned to the doctor, she gave the prescription back to him and said, “Thanks, but I’ll keep my rum.” She lived – very well – for three years.
An old boyfriend, younger than me, endured renal failure a couple of years ago. Last year, he suffered a stroke. He has always been a poet and playwright and now, because of his debilitation, he can no longer make a living doing what he is most passionate about doing. So he has an assistant who helps get things done, as he spends his moments fighting the good fight.
Tomorrow night I am eulogizing another loved one recently departed. I asked my poet friend to write something I could read to tomorrow night’s crowd, write something about someone he never knew, but who was young, like him, when his time with us ended. I promised him payment like he’d never get from a publisher, for up to 100 lines and don’t you know he came up with 900!
I’ll spare you all of them but share with you the gyst:
“You have a right not to be negative / negative emotions rule the world / Remember the striving of birds … Have you ever seen a sulking bird / bemoaning a winter’s storm / refusing to fly or feed / A celibate salmon / Refusing to swim upstream and breed … If a pigeon can fly / or twenty below scavenge through garbage dumpsters behind Theatre Row / Then surely in fairness I at least should try! … As I trudge to the store / keeping the catheter that’s connected to my heart / pressed warm and close / Like a keepsake token of a cosmic joke / I’ll remember to keep clear in a revitalized mind … that the pigeon’s mission is to survive / I’ve upped him one / Heal and thrive…”
I was diagnosed diabetic at 22. At the time, I was in the US Navy and upon my discharge was told to go home, live a nice quiet life and expect to die by 30. I stopped by home and told my family I had some living to do. I will be 45 in October.
Never stop living, Lisa. No matter what. Each of your moments are yours, not your prognosis, not your disease.
With big love to you — jp
Hi Nerissa,
Okay I will wish for a pair of socks stuffed with million dollar bills $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Green Lights, Green Money, Green Living,!
Lisa, hope you are enjoying your travels and are feeling fabulous.. Green Lights to you and socks full of million dollar bills too…
Hi Lisa !!
Is been long… I hope to hear soon from you.
Know that I’m thinking about you.
I Love You
Always
Charlize
Oh, my heart is broken when I see the sex scene in kill kill faster.
Hi Lisa!
My name is Delfina and I am from Lisbon (Portugal).
It is the first time that I write something to somebody that I never meet, on a blog.
I saw your movie ” I only think straight”, and liked very much, however it was the first time that I saw you, or the other actress, and for curiosity I search on the google, and saw that you are so strong as “Tala”.
I know that you probably receive a hundred messages by day encouraging you with your fight against these disease and this will be one more, but I don´t know why looking to your photos something showed me that you are more strong than appear, and you will be the winner.
If you need something from this small country I will be hear to help you
Please!!!!!!!!!!
You don t have time for Cancer!
Not you!
The power of now from Ekhart Tolle.
Do you know it?
You have the power Lisa, I did it with my cancer, and of course you can!!! This book can help.
Love
Bettina
Hi Lisa,
I have to say that I really don’t know why I’m writing this… for one reason it may be that I really want to send you my best wishes! I admire your strength which appears in your poetical writing (your writing: awsome btw…. as I’m a writer myself). Another reason could be that I considered that I don’t know u… as so, I find myself a little silly for writing this stuff, why do people run after other people they see on films… I can’t answer that.. but I really have the very strong feeling that I want to get to know you.. that you’re one interesting unbelieveable person I wanna have in my life.. it sounds so silly, I know this so I think I gotta stop writing to don’t offend u more with empty words…. %-)… irritating…
anyways, I wish u the best for your way… go on. and thank u for your words, u really make me think.
Greats from Austria.
Karina / BRAZIL PS: I really want to know if you read …
PASS ME AN EMAIL: karina.ssantos @ hotmail.com
Since he knew what was going on with you, I felt so sad and worried … It’s strange to feel this way by someone who has never seen in my life …
I have prayed for you every day, in fact, whenever I have time, I pray.
You know, put myself in his place he’d never done by anyone in the world.
It’s surreal how I feel … (My God I think I’m going crazy)
I have enormous affection for you …
I have great faith that you’re already being healed by the hands of medical doctors!
Be sure in your life and your health … As I have!
You are strong and will beat it!
You’ll be fine!
Immeasurable kisses for you ………………………………………. ………
I will always show up …. take care!
~Love~Strength~Courage~ All coming your way
It is the years in your life that count…n you got it going girl
Keep Smiling
Yellow Fellow Diarists
Lisa, Today in,…
http://blog.taragana.com/e/2010/04/09/lisa-rays-new-film-releases-107636/
Hola,
es una lastima que su blog, no este en castellano (español-latinoamericano).
Vi la película The World Unseen, me impresiono, ya que tengo entendido que la religiosidad india, cae en extremos, pero también creo que estos extremos dentro de las múltiples expresiones de la religiosidad india también están las tolerantes, ya que muchas – si no son en su mayoría-, son justificadas por la reencarnación , y por ende creo que si alguien es gay en la india, no es visto mal ,porque existe la justificación religiosa. Por otro lado, sin salir del tema, lo bueno de esta película es que no cae en la morbosidad de siempre(la verdad es que antes de esta nunca vi una película gay), y; toca otros problemas sociales de la época, mas la razón por la que escribo en su blog ( si realmente lo revisa, lee y responde usted misma…o de lo contrario las personas contratadas para este fin), es la manera en que esta tratando de resolver …o buscando una posible cura para el cáncer que se le ha diagnosticado, que… es “raro”… sobretodo el no perder la fe en lo que cree, ya que hasta esto lo toma “como una prueba”,…¿sabe?…usted parece de PERÚ, aquí suele utilizarse mucho esa frase, pues nuestra economía es tan dura con los mas pobres que no queda mas que repetirla como de consuelo, conformismo y pesimismo, no con ello digo que usted lo sea, simplemente veo que existe una gran diferencia, ya que usted ha decidido asumir el reto e iniciar la lucha contra esta prueba “divina” .
Algo que por aquí se dice es que hay plantas de la amazonia como: la uña de gato que es un desinflamante natural y combate el cáncer, así como también una fruta común por las tierras de América del sur como es: la Guanábana, combate todo tipo de cáncer, quien sabe a lo mejor es cierto, por que no prueba y consume estos frutos de la madre tierra.
La UÑA DE GATO VIENE DE UNA ESPECIE DE ÁRBOL DE LA SELVA PERUANA-AMAZÓNICA. La venden en todas partes si pregunta por ella, creo que una de las formas de usarla es comprando la planta osea en pedazos de corteza de árbol que se hechan ha hervir en un litro de agua y se toma como té sin azúcar, es muy amargo, pero …posible de beber.
Por otro lado, la GUANABANA es una fruta que pude comerla cruda y pura , hacerla en jugo, no sé la pude comer como quiera, esta fruta es dulce y sí tiene muchas propiedades curativas, quizás ayude un poco, creo mas bien que lo que mas la va ayudar ha de ser su estado de animo, tratar de no deprimirse. No sé cual hubiera sido mi comportamiento si me hubieran dicho que tengo cáncer.
Le tengo mucha estima y admiracion a la cultura india, desde que tengo uso de razon la admire, es como si me hubiera equivocado de lugar de nacimiento, pero creo que el ser no tiene patria ni nacion, que el mundo es nuestra gran casa. y Me siento bien de haber nacido en mi pais, que es Peru, que a pesar de todo lo que se diga amo y admiro la fuerza de nuestra gente que con poca o nada de ayuda del gobierno sigue adelante, levantandose como un gran gigante descrito en las historias de Jose Maria Argueadas- escrito peruano.
La verdad, que antes de ver esta pelicula, no tenia ni idea que existiera una ruptura dogmatica dentro de la sociedad india, que basa su vida y rutina en la religion. Sin animos de ofenderla, tampoco sabia de su existencia, la verdad es que no veia cine indio, ya que es muy comercial o tragica, la pelicula india que vi y me encanto fue : Lagaan, no muy comun y basada en hechos historicos de orgullo cultural indio..
Soy de Peru y el cine que siempre he visto es el de estados unidos de norteamerica, me gustan las peliculas de ciencia ficcion como: Star Trek and Star Wars, peruanas como :LA TETA ASUSTADA, etc
Ha sido un gustazo saber que hay gente valiente en este mundo
Hi Lisa, its been some time now since we have heard from you on the blog, we hope to hear some news from you soon.
Take care, lots of love.
啊 我英语没学好 我要学英语~~~
Lisa 我永远支持你 O(∩_∩)O哈哈~~~~
爱你哦~~~
Dearest Lisa,
Jak się masz? You are sorely missed…
I have been accustomed to knowing how you are and us not hearing from you get me a bit worried… it would truly be a relief to know that you are well.
I miss the beam of your Soul whenever you will grace us with your ‘presence’ and your writing that always adds breath and depth to my own Being-ness…
I pray that the screening of “Cooking With Stella” at IFFLA went smashingly successful and that you had a whale of a wonderful time at it.
Sending you warmth in all directions.
Much love, care, good vibes and sunshine,
–Nerissa
hey lisa,
i’ve been a fan of your work for a while now. i came across your website today and discovered that you are going through a very tough time with a cancer disease. i’m sorry, really am. to me, you are an excellent actress, smart, beautiful, optimistic and independent. & while reading your blog, you’ve inspired me so much, you’ve touched me with your faith, your hope and they way you view the world – you are caring, passionate, extraordinary, amazing and so beautiful. i’m turning 21 this year, i hope i’ll live to be someone just like you. there are so many people giving you so much support, so lisa, like you said; ‘never stop fighting!’. we’ll always here for you to support you! i’ll always be looking forward to your next work & you’ll always be my inspiration! thanks for just being you! it means a hell lot! 🙂
much love,
jas, bkk, thailand
Hi Lisa,
I’ve been a huge fan of yours since the Bombay Dyeing days…and you’ve been by stimulus for creativity (good way) when I was at grad school. Did not realize though that you’ve been fighting this battle with Cancer, but I’m glad you are feeling better . Wish you all the very best for your future (including your new venture into writing…..can’t wait for your book to reach the stores)
Cheers,
Geeps
Hi Lisa,
Very glad to hear that you are cancer free. You inspire!
Wish you long , healthy and happy life. 🙂
Thanks for that, true fighter ha! 45 congrats,you have soared over the doctors words because in the end they are only human,but there is our God to whom nothing is impossible.
Dear Lisa,
Happy to hear you are cancer free. Wish you have normal life like the rest from now on.
God Bless you
GM
Hi,
Good to know that one of my favourite actress is free from the blood sucking disease. I can sincerely tell you that the whole process of your being contracted with the disease and beign out of the limelight for some time now, will be a blessign in disguise somewhere down the line in your career.
God Bless YOU. Take Care. Do hop on to good vegey diet with yoru daily intake may thins with more antioxidants in them.
Take Care. prayers for you and your family.
A Fan
hi lisa,
today i read a news you are free from cancer its a good news for every body we are pray for your health……..
Hi Lisa,
If you ever plan a trip to Kolkata, do let me know, i’m sure the kids would love to meet you.
We run a english medium, co-ed, NGO school for the economically backward and challenged section of society. Mostly children of rickshaw pullers et al. And they tend to lose hope on their future very fast. I’m sure you could give the a pep talk by narrating your harrowing experience and how you fought to conquer it. That may help these kids fight with their circumstances and win in life.
We’ll keep it a low key event as we have done for others who visited.
Thanks and regards,
Danish.
Kolkata
Digging the boycut 😉
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/bald-truth-bollywood-star-now-cancer-free-20100422-teax.html
Cancer Free! =)
Dear Lisa, I am very happy to hear you have won your battle against cancer. I salute your spirit and positive attitude! Here’s wishing all the success and happiness in future!!God bless!
Hi Lisa.
i have just read that you do not have any cancer cells anymore, what fantastic news. You are such an example to follow, full of life always i really admire you.
Love from a fan from a small island of spain.
Lisa, Wish you all good in the future 🙂
Dear Lisa,
I read about your fight with cancer in India Today. Today while logging into Yahoo I saw your pic with the caption ” Lisa back to life and India”.
I browsed through the pics there and was happy to note that you are cured of cancer. You look lovely in your pics although one can make out that you really did have a bad time, didn’t give up, fought the disease and came out victorious.
I have never ever written to any celebrity but for some reason after reading a few of your blogs I had a tremendous urge to write to you to just say how much I admired your courage and never say die spirit in fighting a cancer that was supposed to be incurable cancer.
I wonder whether you will ever read this but anyway I had to say “Hats off to you and may you have a very long and fruitful life”
Lisa; congratulations.. read your post for the 1st time, simple , touching and moving…
Peace and love..
Hi Lisa,
I met you for the first time, like a week ago, through the movie ‘I can’t think straight’. This is a strange feeling, sometimes, when you feel like you know someone, just seeing her/him on screen. It can’t be true, it’s fiction, that’s the point. But anyway, I started reading about you, and also reading you. (I must say I stick to the person who told you that your language is pretty elaborate sometimes – I’m not a great english-speaker, I’m french, that means everything…) BUT of what I think I understood, you seem to be a quality person.
By a stroke of luck, today (April, 22nd), I have read that you won the cancer. Congratulations, and I’m convinced that it represents a lot to many people, and give them a real and concrete hope.
In the announcement of your healing, you talked about “rebirth” so enjoy your “new” life.
I’m not used to express myself on blogs (my first time actually), so I don’t know how to finish my message, but if “Kisses” is not inappropriate,
Kisses
Dear Lisa, from Russia with LOVE!
I speak English bad, so I beg pardon if that. But I learn ))
I and my girlfriend love your films, we love you!
I am lucky that you are cancer free!!! :o))
I believe you’ll win complete!
I pray God for you
Your surname is Ray – and you are the ray of light, the ray of Sun! :o)) *smile*
I love You
Thank you that you live!
Much health to you! And happiness and LOVE+LOVE+LOVE!
Anna, 34, Russia
Dear Lisa, from Russia with LOVE!
I speak English bad, so I beg pardon if that. But I learn ))
I and my girlfriend love your films, we love you!
I am lucky that you are cancer free!!! :o))
I believe you’ll win complete!
I pray God for you
Your surname is Ray – and you are the ray of light, the ray of Sun! :o)) *smile*
I love You
Thank you that you live!
Much health to you! And happiness and LOVE+LOVE+LOVE!
Anna, 34
What beautiful news of Lisa, I received today !!
Thank you, FingerLakes Tourist.
I am Very Happy.
Lisaraniray, Lisa, Lisita,Talita, Habibti, Beatiful Princess:
What beautiful news, I received today.
Bollywood star ( YOU ) now cancer free.
Excelente !! Im very, very Happy For You.
the world is your! enjoy it. your stay en Los Angeles EU,
And,…where you will be in the coming days ??
…because I want to meet you in person..
is one of my dreams and I want to see reality,…
Smiles !.
I love You!
Here the news.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/people/bald-truth-bollywood-star-now-cancer-free-20100422-teax.html
Lisa:
Just read an inspiring article on your wonderful spirit and the approach that you have taken in life. God bless you.
My family and I pray for your health and wish you the best in life.
Jasmit
As always, thank you Jeni Chen. You da best!!
Hi Lisa,
I recently stumbled across your two movies “I Can’t Think Straight” and “The World Unseen” and I was completely blown away by both the content and your performance. I had not actually seen any of your work prior, but I am now a dedicated fan.
As I looked for more of your work I found your Yellow Diaries and have been reading about your journey. I am a 25 year old nursing student in Northern California, and I have been thinking about focusing on Oncology when I graduate. Your fight and strength and amazing spirit have left no doubt in my mind that working with individuals like yourself, fighting something so ominous but with such courage and determination is where I want to be.
I know you must get thousands of responses and emails, but in the chance that you would read this, I wanted you to know that you have truly inspired me and opened my eyes. You write with such wisdom and eloquence and a calmness that radiates.
I wish you nothing but health and happiness and I thank you for being the amazing woman you are and being so open.
I have purchased your two movies off the website and I look forward to getting the audio version of the books as well!
I hope you make it out to the San Francisco area for some functions! I would love to support you in anyway I can!
Sincerely,
Lisamarie
Hi Lisa,
Was surfing the net yesterday and came across the heading in Yahoo, Lisa Back to Life and Back in India.
The day I saw on the net somewhere, sometime last year, that you have myeloma I knew the myeloma would die.
Welcome to India Lisa.
May you win always…
God bless.
hey lisa m your very big fan….i liked your movie bolly-holly….its fantastic job by you….you ws looking so pretty in that…anyway you are so pretty…i wanna say you…. love u so much…!!!
lisa please reply !!!
“Times of India” shows a news that you are cured. You have fought against cancer, inspiring others too. Great job. Expecting you in silverscreen again. Consider some Tamil movies too.
-Alaguraj.V
Madurai.
dear lisa,
congrats on walking with your head held high and winning a humbling battle! HI-5! HI-5! I AM truly really inspired! Thank you!
wishes of happiness,
-em-
Dear Lisa
You are an amazing writer. The energy, beauty and insightfullness of your words radiate from the pages of your blog. Thank you for sharing your journey with the world. I hope you will publish your words because they are not only a work of art but they are enlightening. I believe in humanity even inspite of so much darkness in the world. Your writings are like a humainistic infusion reminding us of the beauty of being a citizen of earth and the treasure of the gift of life. Best wishes on your journey and please keep writing!
mjak
FYI, my boss defied all odds to become the first successful bone marrow transplant case in the country. He’s my first idol and u r second.
And imagine, i am picking u two from 6 billion people from this world. But u 2 deserve it. Wud love to mee u someday, may be after 20/25 years.
Cheers and love
Hey Dearest Lisa,
I feel a thrill passing through the air and I am in an all-time high knowing you are cancer-free!
As if I am seeing the blending of the sea and the sky, and it fills me with this soothing Serenity…
I truly felt the collective universal elation felt by everyone who is touched by you and your journey. And to be very honest, such news brought me out from my self-imposed ‘cave’ which I hide at the moment…
May the radiance of your Being continuously shine brightly around you and upon those whom you come across in Life.
You are definitely creating a Legacy worthy to always look-up to…
Love you so much,
–Nerissa
PS:
Wrote something in Celebration of your Triumph:
http://behindmyscenes-np.blogspot.com/2010/04/lisa-ray-is-now-cancer-free.html
♥♥♥
Lisa,
Congrats on your full remission, your super cool new look (very chic), the MM benefit and Cooking at the Indian Film Festival in LA as well as your book deal in India?!! I continue to to join you in the suffering and in the joy.
Best,
Susan
Afterthoughts…
Last year at the TIFF premiere of “Cooking With Stella”, you were sort of officially announcing to the world about your battle with MM.
Now at the IFFLA premiere of “Cooking With Stella”, you have announced that You are cancer-free!
Things do come in FULL-CIRCLE.
That ‘c-whirlwind’ just proves how Tough and Courageous You are!
Giving you a very strong bear-like Hug 🙂 😉
Confucius say.. alot of shit, but this one particular thing he says “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.” (side A) You are a very beautiful, strong woman that can’t be fucked with and I believe that is a dangerous composition. So I say to you Ms. Ray, to divert whatever you’re feeling: (side B) do something you’ve never done before, even if you have done it, do it again but add something different.. walk out into the world, close your eyes, take a deep breath, let the wind blow through your hair (although there might be a slight draft) and just take it easy- take it one day at a time, even the great wall of china wasn’t built in a day.
Hiya,
Life while living
The best part of life is life itself,
bad moments and the good moments,
the people u r with.
What makes it so great
is that u can
love, learn, laugh, and live
everyday
tell the day.
loves&Hugs
¡¡¡¡ REENVIAR A TODO EL MUNDO … !!!!!
El Mundo al Instante publica este artículo traducido por el periodista colombiano Orlando López Garcia, advirtiendo que su contenido es responsabilidad exclusiva del Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud, cuya pagina Web y dirección se encentran al final del escrito.
La Guanábana o la fruta del árbol de Graviola es un producto milagroso para matar las células cancerosas.
Es 10,000 veces más potente que la quimioterapia.
¿Por qué no estamos enterados de ello?
Porque existen organizaciones interesadas en encontrar una versión sintética, que les permita obtener fabulosas utilidades.
Así que de ahora en adelante usted puede ayudar a un amigo que lo necesite, haciéndole saber que le conviene beber jugo de guanábana para prevenir la enfermedad.
Su sabor es agradable. Y por supuesto no produce los horribles efectos de la quimioterapia. Y sí tiene la posibilidad de hacerlo, plante un árbol de guanábana en su patio trasero. Todas sus partes son útiles.
La próxima vez usted que quiera beber un jugo, pídalo de guanábana.
¿Cuántas personas mueren mientras este secreto ha estado celosamente guardado para no poner en riegos las utilidades multimillonarias de grandes corporaciones?
Como usted bien lo sabe el árbol de guanábana es bajo. No ocupa mucho espacio, Se le conoce con el nombre de Graviola en Brasil, guanábana en Hispanoamérica, y “Soursop” en Inglés.
La fruta es muy grande y su pulpa blanca, dulce , se come directamente o se la emplea normalmente, para elaborar bebidas, sorbetes, dulces etc.
El interés de esta planta se debe a sus fuertes efectos anti cancerígenos. Y aunque se le atribuyen muchas más propiedades, lo más interesante de ella es el efecto que produce sobre los tumores .. Esta planta es un remedio de cáncer probado para los cánceres de todos los tipos. Hay quienes afirman que es de gran utilidad en todas las variantes del cáncer.
Se la considera además como un agente de anti-microbial de ancho espectro contra las infecciones bacterianas y por hongos; es eficaz contra los parásitos internos y los gusanos, regula tensión arterial alta y es antidepresiva, combate la tensión y los desórdenes nerviosos.
La verdad es simple: En lo profundo de la selva Amazónica crece un árbol que podría revolucionar lo que usted, su doctor, y el resto del mundo piensan sobre el tratamiento del cáncer y las oportunidades de supervivencia que ofrece, nunca antes se había presentado un panorama tan prometedor..
Las muestras de la investigación, con los extractos de este árbol milagroso, son alentadoras. Veamos algunas conclusiones:
* Es una terapia natural que no causa náuseas extrema, ni pérdida de peso o del cabello.
* Protege el sistema inmunológico, evitando las infecciones mortales
* La persona se siente más fuerte y más saludable a lo largo del tratamiento
* Esa energía renovada mejora sus perspectivas en la vida
La fuente de esta información es fascinante: procede de uno de los fabricantes de medicinas más grandes del mundo, quien afirma que después de más de 20 pruebas de laboratorio, realizadas a partir de 1970 los extractos revelaron que:
Destruye las células malignas en 12 tipos de cáncer, incluyendo el de colon, de pecho, de próstata, del pulmón y del páncreas…
Los compuestos de este árbol demostraron actuar 10,000 veces mejor retardando el crecimiento de las células de cáncer que el producto Adriamycin, una droga quimioterapéutica, normalmente usada en el mundo.
Y lo que es todavía más asombroso: este tipo de terapia, con el extracto de Graviola, o Guanábana, destruye tan sólo las malignas células del cáncer y no afecta las células sanas.
La pregunta que surge es: Y si las propiedades anti-cancerígenas de la Graviola han sido investigadas tan intensamente, por qué usted nunca había oído hablar al respecto ¿Si ese extracto tuviera tan siquiera el 50% de la importancia que se le atribuye, por qué los oncólogos, en los hospitales no instan a sus pacientes a usarlo?
La respuesta es sencilla: nuestras mismas vidas y nuestra salud están bajo el control del poder económico.
Y la Graviola es una planta que trabaja muy bien.
Una corporación americana, multimillonaria, inició la búsqueda de una cura para el cáncer y su investigación se centró en la Graviola.
Todas sus partes mostraron ser útiles: hojas, raíces, la pulpa y las semillas–se han sido usada durante siglos por los curanderos y los indígenas nativos en América del Sur , en el tratamiento de enfermedades del corazón, asma, problemas artritis.
Ante las primeras evidencias, la mencionada compañía gastó ingentes sumas de dinero para probar las propiedades anti-cancerígenas del árbol y se asombró por los resultados. Parecía que se iba a convertir en la fuente de millonarias utilidades. Pero se encontraron con un obstáculo insalvable: el árbol de Graviola (Guanábana) es completamente natural, razón por la cual no es patentable bajo la ley federal. No era posible obtener las jugosas utilidades que se esperaban de ella. No hay ninguna manera de hacer ganancias serias de él.
La compañía optó entonces por tratar de sintetizar dos de los ingredientes del potente anti- cancerígeno del árbol dela Graviola.
Si ellos hubieran podido aislarlos, estarían en condiciones de patentarlo y ganar billones de dólares. Peros se encontraron con un muro infranqueable.
El original simplemente es imposible de reproducir. No había manera alguna para que la compañía mencionada pudiera protegerse comercialmente si divulgara los resultados de sus investigaciones, sin obtener antes una patente exclusiva.
Como ese sueño se ha evaporado, la compañía archivó el proyecto decidió abstenerse de publicar los resultados de su investigación. .
Por suerte, un científico que participó en investigación, cuya ética profesional no le permitiría cohonestar tal decisión, resolvió arriesgarse poniéndose en contacto con una firma dedicada a estudiar las plantas de la Amazonia y se hizo el milagro.
Cuando los investigadores del Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud se enteraron de las buenas nuevas, comenzaron a investigar la posibilidad de que la Graviola pudiera combatir el cáncer. La evidencia de la efectividad asombrosa de Graviola y la forma como se pretendió encubrir esa verdad no se hicieron esperan, levantando una ola de indignación.
El Instituto Nacional del Cáncer realizó la primera investigación científica en 1976. Los resultados mostraron que las hojas de la Graviola y sus tallos son eficaces atacando y destruyendo las células malignas. Inexplicablemente, los resultados se recogieron en un informe confidencial y nunca fueron entregados a la opinión pública.
Desde entonces , la Graviola ha mostrado en 20 pruebas de laboratorio, independientes , que su poder anti-cancerígeno es muy potente , aunque todavía no se ha adelantado pruebas a ciegas (doble-ciego) que son las utilizadas por la ciencia médica como referencia para juzgar el valor de tratamiento, este se comenzó .
Un estudio publicó en el Periódico Natural Products ( Productos Naturales) , recogió siguiendo un reciente estudio de la Universidad Católica de Corea Sur, declararó que un elemento, un químico de la Graviola (Guanábana) fue utilizado para matar las células de cáncer de colon de manera selectiva, con una potencia “10,000 superior a la Adriamicina normalmente usada… “
La parte más significativa del estudio de la Universidad Católica de Corea afirma que la Graviola mostró ser selectiva al atacar las células del cáncer, mientras dejaba intactas las células sanas, al contrario de la quimioterapia tradicional que ataca, sin discriminació n a las células en proceso de reproducción (como las de el estómago y el cabello), causando efectos colaterales a menudo devastadores como náusea s y la pérdida del pelo en los pacientes que la reciben.
Otro estudio reciente , de la Universidad de Purdue , Lafayette, Indiana, encontró que las hojas del árbol de Graviola matan las células de seis tipos de cáncer, en especial de la próstata, el páncreas y los pulmones. ¡ Una verdad ocultada por más de siete años al fin ha sido revelada !
Un suministro limitado de extracto de Graviola, cultivado y obtenido por las los indígenas del Brasil, está finalmente disponible en América.
Ese crucial reporte (con cinco reportes más GRATIS) se puede obtener en el Instituto de las Ciencias de La Salud.
Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud, L.L.C. 819 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 1201
http://www.hsibalti more.com
It’s been awhile since your last entry Lisa. Hope you’re doing OK.
Best wishes
Dear Lisa,
You really need to know why all these are happening? You need to know the spiritual truths. You need to enquire into spirituality. Most of the people are in a blind illusion. We think this is the only life and we are this body and the sufferings of this body is our suffering.
You please visit ISKCON (International Society Of Krishna Consciousness) and start learning about spiritual truth which is a pathway for unlimited bliss and freedom from all sufferings.
Do not waste your precious human life with doing some worldly business of modelling and movies.. It doesnot lead you anywhere. Whatever great we achieve in this material world is finished off with this body. Old age, disese, sufferings are certain. No doctor or no scientist can save us from death when it comes. So we need to start enquiry into the truths beyond birth and death and beyond nature. These are the basic questions which an intelligent human being should start enquiring
who am i?
who is God?
what is my relation with Him?
where was i before birth?
where will i go after death?
why am i suffering here?
what is karma?
and many more..
Re-birth !
Loved it when I read it on your blog.
It’s time to leave few things behind…. and discover what this “new life” has in store for you. Drop me a note when you are in India.
P.S: have not seen any of your movies really; but what the heck — prefer to be a friend than a fan…cheers !
-G
Hey Lisa,
Was shocked n upset to hear when u announced abt ur cancer. I am more relived now when I read in newspapers in Bangalore that you are recovering well. I am happy to hear that from you.
Been your admirer since I was teenager (31 now). You bring charm and peace with you always. Wish you keep giving the same for many many years ahead. Always!!
Love You
Veer
Read this head line “Lisa Ray cancer-free and ready to re-embrace India” @ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Lisa-Ray-cancer-free-and-ready-to-re-embrace-India/articleshow/5846468.cms
Happy for you.. & Welcome home princess…
You are a symbol for endurance & hope..
Be happy always….
HELLO MY EMERALD-EYED !!!
I hope you are fine.You’re enjoying the your new life.I am very happy for you.A newborn baby is like a college student dear Lisa Ray.
Like a miracle,A baby learns a lot ot things in a very short time. I think sometimes,Do we learn throughout our lives much things like a baby? I dont think so.Only when we get too old,We filled up a baby.And then,We’re like a baby again.
Our hair is shed,We are losing our teeth,Our conversation is changing,We are more fragile,We have started to walk hard,and Our skin is wrinkled like a new born baby.It is very strange and difficult to understand for me.balance of nature like a bottomless well.I put my daughter’s name “NATURE”for this reason.
Now,this miracle nature is taking my second mother from me:-(.I have 2 mothers dear Lisa Ray.An axcellent My biological mother and my spiritual mother.She did not have any kids.but it was a wonderful mother to me.
No need to birth for to be a mother Lisa Ray.You believe me.I am living this everyday.I am an art teacher in an orphanage.women birth to children and throw them at the door my imagine friend. I have ocean- heart friends.They are interested in with that children.Which one real mother?
You can believe this is not”art of the asking wrong question” Will I give the answer with all my sincerity.which women is raised,that real mother !!!
I am very lucky.I have 2 mothers.And I say”mother” for two.And now my heart-mother is waiting to die in hospital:-(.I’m having a very difficult time but I thank God,For me the privilege of acquaintance.I love a song it says these words.It currently describes my feelings.the biggest loss in my life.
I am already wet in the middle of the Bosphorus
My tears are hiding in the rain drops,
Dont stop, rain! Do not stop!
My soul is being varnished under the İstanbul shower
Drops mix on my cheeks,
Dont stop, rain! Do not stop!
Her name cant be read on the stars,
Parting is written in the cliffhangers.
Dont ask to me, you dont ask her!
Dont ask, dont ask, fill up the Bosphorus!
You fill up, i drink with my melancholy until satisfied.
Dont stop, dont stop, fill up the Bosphorus!
You fill, i drink to the lies until satisfied!
Dont stop, my spirit is burning like a fire!
I beg to put it out, dont stop! Please, dont stop!
Dont stop, rain! Do not stop!
Dont ask, you dont ask her!
She needs blood donations.What is pain… but I can not give:-( 2 years ago I had made blood donations to the hospital for my father.But I stayed in “intensive care” for 1 night.My father stayed 2 days.My father was hospitalized due to by-pass and ı was hospitalized because of tachycardia.I’m not allowed to donate blood and most life-threatening for me.Yes because of this I am very unlucky dear Lisa Ray.
Yeah, I’m waiting for the new gift of life.beautiful or ugly…I can not choose that gift.I like or dont like,But at the end,It has come to me.
Life passes with some examinations.Bitter-sweet whatever …those are my treasures. I know ,the value of the pain I won.I can not quarrel Lisa Ray.I can not!!
What to do? I think Some songs are not painful,Some are missing ha ?
Not the blood that connects us,we are connecting with her big heart.My head will miss her kness.My last name is “Gazelle”(Ceylan) in english.But now, I’m a “wounded gazelle “dear Lisa Ray. But the wound must heal.It will…The God will give me strength!!
My left side hurts…my left side hurts…
If, there is a kite in the sky,I cried after my childhood,
I’m running behind the days of my life with her…
I apologize…you are bored.I am very happy for you my emerald-eyed.long, beautiful a new life awaits you.I pray for you every day and I still…Everything going on with the strength of heart my little baby.You know the value of yourself! I think ,you already learned this.
You..with This experience will help the community and yourself.Enjoy from your life and just think yourself!!!
Life; such as black and white full of contrasts (just like the shirt you’re wearing in L.A) but how they fit together…isnt it? opposite poles attract each other always…The “black” is very nice.The “white” is very nice.
I know you do not like philosophy.I hope what I write does not appear like philosophy to you:-( they are just my feeling for now.I was miss to talk with you.
Good bye my emerald-eyed and my ocean-heart imagine friend.You listened me thank you…
LISA=DOGA
me alegra muchisimo ver que te estás recuperando,a ver si nos deleitas con tu escritura de nuevo ,unas líneas que nos transportan y nos saca una sonrisa de felicidad porque lo estás logrando
un abrazo enorme
Great.. I ma glad you’re back! I’ve told you in September, last year that you will be just fine.
Be happy and don’t abuse your body for the second time 🙂
Dearest Lisa,
I honestly tried to read thru everything before actually posting a comment, but I was overwhelmed — not only by your entries (you are an unsung poet), but also by comments herein.
I feel lost in the flood.
Be that as it may, I have a few thoughts for you if you ever get the chance to read them (and forgive me — you’ve had thousands of responders, so much of what I say could be redundant). Ce la vie…
1) You are my new prayer project. I care, for whatever reason. And let me tell you something: I have a FIERCE faith, sister. So whenever you’re down (or not) just know I have your back.
2) now, this may sound strange, but I’m an artist (both paint and digital) AND a person well-versed in many kinds of esoteric spirituality — and I’m wondering: if you continue to go without hair, for whatever reason, would you consider having a Mandala painted on your head? With non-toxic paint of course. I’ve often wondered whether this idea (of painting one’s head) could be a great idea for cancer patients who lose their hair — to doff the scarf, and embrace a work of art upon their heads. Just an idea. Don’t know if it might be considered offensive?
3) I underwent a journey of my own approx 3.5 years ago. Thankfully, I’m coming out of it. But I know it’s a winter of the soul, and I’d like to share the books that helped me, although our journeys are somewhat different:
a) “Conspiracy of the Rich” – by Robert Kiyosaki
OOPS! I ousted myself from my own thread! Sigh… the tragedy… ANYWAY, I was posting book suggestions for people in their “winters” of the soul… I shall continue:
b) “You Can Heal Your Life” — by Louise Hay (never EVER underestimate this one.)
c) “A Return To Love” — by Marianne Williamson OR — “Teach Only Love” by Gerold Jampolsky
d) “Your Time Is Now” — by Joel Osteen (don’t underestimate this one either; whether you have a respect for Jesus Christ or not — this one is not to be missed)
e) “Gold & Silver” (Rich Dad’s Guide To…) by Mike Maloney — I see that you appreciate R. Kiyosaki. This book illuminates everyone to the presence of the cycles of change (ie: commodities, real estate, paper assets, etc) and how to play with them. EXTREMELY illuminating.
f) Lastly, The Bible, the Course in Miracles & The Tao.
Strangely, I was a 10 year old when I checked the Tao Te Ching out of the library. I had no idea (at the time) what it was. I did not come to know exactly the import of what it was until I was well into my late 20s.
HOWEVER, I did possess an extremely high IQ, and an interest/penchant for spirituality. (My parents are both evangelical Christian ministers, and I grew up around theology, graeco-roman history, opera, jewish tradition and the like.) My strengths are currently in the linguistic/artistic/esoteric/shamanistic/kabbalic & musical fields (they’re all related, although the average person doesn’t see it as such).
But keep your eyes open when you read these books mentioned above. Pay attention. The greatest advise I think I could give would be to pay attention to what you say out loud and in your mind. There’s a larger ridiculously esoteric and heady meaning behind it all (and if you want to know; I’ll tell you) but be simple — speak good. Think good. And otherwise, don’t worry.
When treading upon this ancient transitional ground of change that you are (now in this MM state) — the best thing to do is to try to remember before you were born. Try to recognize patterns (another recommend is to check out totalbiology.ca practitioner Gilbert Renaud — pronounce it the french way… jill-bear — he has a gift. Use it– he’s incredible)!
That being said, I will just leave you with an encouraging word — leave all old labels behind! All old understandings of who you are and who you should be! You are a child of the most high God, and leave it at that. You are regal.
Interesting to note that “Rani” — your middle name, means exactly that: regal.
Take care, be well, and understand — my dear angel…
–C
Hey,
Just read the news ‘Lisa Ray’ is fully cured. Congrats to all of us (and to you too).
God Bless you!
-Me
hola!! aca estoy d buelta,perdone por no escribir hantes bueno en realidad estaba ocupada en otras cositas y un poco triste,nose si supo lo del terremoto aca en chile eso ya hace dos meses pero aun queda la colita de lo susedido,pero aca estoy poniendome al día,y esperar que siga bien y que se cuide mucho ya que para muchos de nosotros es importante mucha fuerza y que DIOS la Bendiga yo siempre (talchuano-chile) besos..
Josephine, you should’ve met my mother!
u look like a monk,[shud say an enlightened one] . . .
with ur smile u inspire us to live !
Breath be with you !
Lisa,
Congratulations on your recovery. Never Stop Fighting!!! Continue to be blessed and a blessing to all of us.
When I had a dream about you 3 nights ago, I thought it was strange. You wrote messages of thanks. I wasn’t sure if I should be scared or not. You haven’t posted anything here and on twitter. Now I realized that it was more like “on the third day” she rose again. A revelation. Indeed, you have resurrected/transformed. God affirmed the message of salvation to a lot of beings through you. I thank you for that. I know a new chapter of your life will start again, keep it up.
Still overwhelmed…
Carine,
Thanks for posting the recommended readings. Somehow, a lot of us are going through some sort of journey. May it be spiritual or physical… to be transformed. I agree, everything is connected from music to numbers to spirituality.
Looking forward to these…
Namaste Habibi,
Golly its feels strange to post something after a long ‘hiatus’ and I do feel ‘lost’ in the midst of these lovely comments by the yellolunists fans…
Just want to say I read the Indian article on your full recovery and re-embracing your 2nd home, India. I am glad you are well and about and enjoying life with a vigor…take each day as it is, and remember always to smell the flowers; feel the sun on your face….:D
BB, BG, BSmiling Always
MF
After reading your blog, I’m surprised that writing is not your first vocation. I was glad to hear that you are in full remission since I only just discovered your films, and I’m anticipating many more to come. I wanted to briefly thank you for giving a voice to this experience, the wild “Cancer” ride. Cancer is a friend of the family, a friend of mine, and a friend of a friend. It changes the lenses of your eyes, nothing looks the same again. Old habits die hard, and even a cancer diagnosis doesn’t always kill them. I was diagnosed at 38 with uterine cancer, luckily found early, and after a hysterectomy, I am cancer-free. (Whatever that means) Cancer runs rampant in my family, grandmother, aunt, mother, myself. For us it isn’t “if”, it is “when”, and we never talked about it. Thank you for the words, the words that were never said, for finally giving a voice to the experience called “Cancer”. It was a relief to read them. Many blessings.
Michelle
Hi Lisa,
I saw you on CBC this AM – you spoke so well and so knowledgeably about the process of stem cell transplants – I think it’s so important to dispel myths and educate the public.
My daughter was diagnosed at 10 weeks old with Leukemia, and had an unrelated 4/6 cord blood transplant at 6 months old – it saved her life! She is now almost 5.
Thanks for sharing your story with the world, it’s so important.
best wishes for your continued health.
Saw you on CBC today. Good job.
It’s nice to see somebody with some sort of profile raising public awareness about this very painful disease.
I was diagnosed at 30 — seven years ago — and have lost 10 cm in height, a chunk of my skull and half my right pelvis.
My wife now towers over me when she wears high heels.
MM sucks but it’s not necessarily a death sentence anymore.
Keep fighting. Watch lots of comedy.
Hi Lisa,
Saw your recent clip at the LA Indian Film Fest. You looked really good. What a fighter you are. Hope life is all good from here.
Loved your movies directly by Shamim Sharif. I was sad to find out about your illness but glad that you are well!! Looking forward to seeing your furture work.
Anne
Hello Lisa,
It is so wonderful to hear you are doing so well!
Although I can not imagine what it has been like to go through what you have, I can imagine what it is like to go through a quadruple bypass.
It is a life altering experience that sadly many have experienced but hopefully most will recover from.
It is truly a gift from a higher power, to be given a second chance and I would like to, in a small way, repay that gift. My hope is to produce a video about my experience and reflect on some of the good and not so great experiences.
It has been a bit of a roller coaster but when all is said and done I thank God for giving me a new start. Here is some of the text, rough though it may be…
…For the past year or longer I had been doing regular weekly exercises on my indoor bike and although I am sure I could have been doing a lot more, that particular day may have been luckiest day of my life.
I am sure for some fit people 150 beats a minute does not seem to be particularly dangerous considering I had been doing aggressive exercise, but for me it seemed very uncomfortable while just sitting in an easy chair.
To this day I am not sure why I actually called the Paramedics, no apparent symptoms but I did call, and I am sure that simple action is what saved my life…
One day I hope to find a director that thinks this and stories similar to mine should be told.
I will keep looking and keep you posted! One day I will can an old friend Vic Sarin another x C.B.C. News person
Continued good luck in your recovery, you should be very proud of yourself.
Rick Carpenter
Facebook and
Youtube rickc1945
Hello Lisa Ray. I admire you too, I’m on Facebook and read your blog, you write very well.
Just wanted to share with you some of what I write in my sleepless nights I do not know if you read it but I want to try.
I try not to think of things that could harm me, or rather that can affect my mood, my mind. That’s why I keep writing.
Each day that passes my mind is full of new things, new thoughts. At this point I tell them that I will not give in, if the item is put up a fight, then I’m willing to give it and win, I will not bow my head, I promise that I will not surrender. Positive occult forces seeking to come to my aid and together we will be victorious.
A bear hug and best wishes.
Francy Quitian
In Colombia 😉
Congrats!\*/, on bringing that awful disease to its knees. You look great and I must say you are rocking the short hair.
Dearest Lisa,
It feels like there is something missing if you haven’t written anything for a long while… be it in your blog or twitter.
I miss that illuminating sunshine when I read your words and I miss you so much…
I know that all of us can get caught up with Life, especially in your case now that you are fully catching-up with things that were temporarily taken away from you before… but it is my hope/wish that we can hear from you real soon… that is, when you find the time…
There is a vibrant color to the world every time you will share your Life through your writing… and personally, its one of those very important things that I am immensely grateful for.
Saw your CBC News interview as well. Knowing that you are doing well especially in terms of your Health and knowing that a lot of adventures are in-store for you in the pipeline makes me very Happy!
I always keep you in my daily prayers and May that ‘marker’ never appear again in the radar.
Miss you so much,
–Nerissa
PS:
I love your new hair-do.
Hola Lisa! Soy Estela de españa,te sigo muchisimo, ya que
no solo te admiro como estas llevando esta enfermedad
sino que eres de las mejores actrices que hay en este
momento.Sé que te vas a recuperar y vas a volver a
sorprendernos con grandes peliculas. Solo quiero darte
todo mi apoyo desde aqui y que no cambies nunca, ya que
aunque no tengo el honor de conocerte se nota que eres
una gran persona con un gran corazon. Un beso muy
grande y espero que vengas algun día a conocer España.
Never Stop Fighting
Lisa
I love you, you are my childhood crush. I grew up seeing you, i mean to say your movies. I simply love you. Lisa you said that you didn’t reacted, not even cried when you came to know about that horrendous thing, but believe me i cried a lot, i asked God, why bad things happens to good people. Don’t worry you will be perfectly fine. I want to meet you some day. Would you like to meet me??
Surbhi
aagh ka kya hai, pal do pal mein lagti hai
bhujthe bhujthe, ek zamaana lagta hai
(we caught on to you in a moment, it does not wear off easily babe, check twitter, blog everyday, but aap kaha aati hai aaj kal, manzoor hai parda aap ka)
tera chehra kitna suhaana lagta hai
tere aaghe (that beautiful) chaand purana lagta hai
Best Wishes from China to you. love you.
祝幸福
28th April,2010.
My Virtuous One….Lisa Rani Ray,
Yesterday I sat down after work and I wrote, from the heart, which I always do and then I hit the submit comment button and sat back,pleased with myself for finding the time to write to you and POOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A message shows up to inform me that there was an error and the comment was blown into a tailspin into oblivion!!!!!!!!
Can you imagine how I felt at that moment? Yes!, well I didn’t scream aloud to alarm my co- workers ,so I promised myself I will try again 2morrow, which is now> this mail and I hope I get it right this time……..
SPRINGS OF LIFE
Glad to learn that you are officially ‘cancer-free’,
The Power Above have granted you be,
Filled wtih Life and Love and Joyand Peace,
Filled with life to keep afloat,
Above and beyond … a new REBIRTH.
Springs of new Life pours out of streams narrow,
Out with new cells to fill the marrow,
Renewed Life to keep you sprightly as a Sparrow,
For Life now is always a NEW TOMORROW ……..
Springs of Life in the marrow…..
Springs of Love in the marrow….
Springs of Joy in the marrow….
Springs of Peace in the marrow….
For my Baby Girl —Lisa Rani
by Rosemarie Ramnarine…. Forever and a Day.
All my Love and Support.
Lovely Lisa
It is a fact that you got cured due to your faith in GOD and also in yourself… you make us all smile when you smile …you give us the strength by being strong….you gives us hope to live by keeping the faith…. you are just awesome and great !!
May GOD bless you !!
Dear Lisa
Thank you for documenting you journey with Multiple Myeloma and your road to health. You are about 1 year ahead of me in this.
I am 32 in Toronto, and diagnosed with Myeloma In February. I have done the dex and velcade and am getting reading to start the stem cell transplant portion or my healing. Pray for a good outcome.
REading about what you have experienc ed has helped me have some ideas of what to expect with this rare cancer that for some reason choose us. I’ve sure you’ve heard over and over like I have how you do “not fit the usual profile”! Being the youngest diagnosed with Myelloma by my Dr. isn’t exactly the distinction I’m most proud of 😐
Good luck! Stay Healthy!
Alyssa 🙂
Ps you are very strong to have been able to work and keep going during treatment. Just wanted to say that!
Hi Alyssa,
just read your message to Lisa. I too was diagnosed with MM in June of last year aged 40. It seems to be finding its way to us young ones..Good luck with your treatment. I am still smoldering. Going back to Dr every 2 months..
Lots of love! Ur now in my thoughts and prayers.
Hi Lisa,
I just saw “A World Unseen” today for the first time — how perfect you were for that role (because it was so interior).
Anyway, that’s off my subject. What I was honestly going to ask is if you are taking donations for your own medical treatment? If so I’d like to contribute.
Let us know…
Much love goes out to you; congrats on your remission!
–Carine
Never thought this could happen. The whole disease looked so evil and bad. But you made it because you belived and trusted in medicine but mainly in your body. This is wonderful and I would like to say “Congratulations”. Keep you spirits happy and enjoy life. All the best for a new cancer free part of your life. Take care.
somewhere i read this” I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet”
be brave lisA
salvation is from within
Hey Lisa,
You rock! And keep this up always!
Dear Lisa,
Recently I was read about your health & ofcourse I am feeling happy. And credit goes to your willpower. Don’t mind , I am not a philospher but a big fan of you…!
All the best….!
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THINGS, ^-^ G O O D THINGS¡¡ ………
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thanks for d:o) SMILE……AHa,ha,ha¡¡¡¡
is the gift of life………
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bonjour
just thing about you!!! hope you are OK
You rock all over again..!
Just so ecstatic that you’ve come out with flying colours!
It’s party time and here’s to your good health – Cheers!
http://blog.dipraj.org/2010/05/03/shes-back/
one useful sentence is better than a thousand useless word
(Buddha Gautama)
just like you are doing now, to spread kindness, a spirit to people out there.
This disease does not make you look ugly, but increasingly showing a mature personality and your extraordinary struggle.
though perhaps we will never meet, but your story became an inspiration to me when I fell and felt that I was not alone.
happy to hear that now you are cancer free.
keep doing all this good thing.
(sorry my English is bad)
“hunger is the greatest disease;
aggregates are the greatest ill;
health is the highest gain;
contentment is the greatest wealth;
the trust are the best kinsmen.”
(Buddha Gautama)
Lisa you are such an inspiration:) My girlfriend and I have such love for you…
We love you:) you are a great writter and if you could just reply to me one time…I would be so happy.
Dios te vendiga mi nina hermosa,siempre te vamos a apoyar eres una excelente actriz Y una mujer increible algun dia quiero seguir tus pasos. Te amamos! besos y abrazos:)
Angel, is what you should call yourself. You are so inspiring to every one of us (cancer free or not 🙂 I know “everything happen for a reason” saying is probably what you don’t want to hear (or maybe you do), but the statement is so true! Many people out there with MM will look at their conditions and think “well dammit, if Lisa can beat it we should be able to!” ha.ha. well, that’s not what I really want to say. Thank you for sharing your love, your stories, your pains, your happiness, most importantly your smiles (and yes you’re still a Sexy ex-MM babe!). You give hope for those who are left in the dark. Love you much!
~Tia
Oh One last thing I forgot to mention..
“You need to update your blog, Lisa!” ha ha…
we can’t get enough of you! I think you have started a new untreatable incurable sickness, more like a disease to be exact. It’s called IMLR- Insanely Missing Lisa Ray!
Love,
~Tia
HI Lisa
This is Aparajita from Media Voice Magazine. Need to get in touch with you but not sure how.
Do get in touch with me at bose@mediavoicemag.com if you do see this.
HELLO MY EMERALD-EYED !!!
I hope you are fine..
I’m sure you have very good days and I’m happy for you and of course for me.Each happy heart and each healty body very very important for me.
You are shining day by day.(ooo !! of course this is my guess). Sorry for now…I’m in a position to use only my guess.this is your request mysterious woman 🙂 This is joke just a joke…
Every period of life… a color…dear Lisa Ray. I’ll talk for our skin but maybe you can use for your life . For example,we born “white” after we return “pink”,became ill “yellow” when angry “red” under the sun we return “brown” when scared “white” when we die “grey”.
when we happy this is our “pink”period.when we sad this is our “black” period.when we need to hope “blue”. when we are in piece this is “white” period.if we are full in desire for our life,this is our “green” period.
I know you have some good desires and imaginations for your new life.You are right!! You need full of piece and happines days . you go lawn for your desire.For to piece you look horizon.you know horizon is endles and the same time blue(hope). I hope your heart is “pink” now.And you are in pink period in your life.
Everyting will be wonderful.Yo deserve it.You had respect the life.The life will give it’s present to you.
ohhh! In this case ,dont worry we are here as always…
good bye my cormorant bird !!! I’ll pray for your health and for your new works….
LISA=DOĞA
Dear Lisa,
I just want you to know (again and one among many) that you’re an angel, You’re so beautiful. I mean – your soul is beautiful shining through your eyes, your smile, your thoughts … You give us knowing that the world is beautiful.
Take care, brave girl. I love you so much. I think of you every day.
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Hi Lisa
I pray for you to get better…I’m became a fan of you months ago and when I heard about you I was so sad…
Keep smiling as you’re doing, be strong.
Kisses and a huge hug
Just read at internet this, an OLD/NEW link:
Lisa Ray — cancer-free and ready to re-embrace India
http://in.reuters.com/article/bollywoodNews/idINIndia-47900520100422
(there is a lisa’s picture that i never seen before)
” LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Ten months after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Canadian actress Lisa Ray says she is cancer free, has enjoyed being bald, and is ready to embrace her second home, India, with new vigour.
The actress and model, frequently named as one of the most beautiful people in the world by Indian and Canadian media, says she is feeling “reborn” after a stem cell transplant in January to treat multiple myeloma……”
Hi Lisa
Knowing you reminds me on what i believe in……’the moment’….
You know something Lisa, in Hinduism we say ‘Aham Brahasmi’..’I am God’, all that we go through we have asked for ourselves, as Gods to learn and share….and expand..
You have chosen in human life a challenging and beautiful experience to expand…I am glad you realize that..
Remember?
We are not human beings sent into this world for spiritual experience…. we are spiritual beings going through a human experience..to learn, unlearn and expand….
Way to Go Lisa!
Dear Lisa Ray,
I am currently doing my PhD studies in Switzerland, and I saw your interview on CNN IBN. I was initially taken aback when I got to know that you have been fighting Cancer Since June of last year.
The motivation and positive feeling you have is amazing!
Anyway, I did not google you up and write this post to tell you this, which many people would have told you.
I wanted to tell you that, drinking ‘fresh wheat grass juice’ everyday can help fight cancer especially Multiple myeloma. Since you are in India, you can buy a book by Ann Wigmore who did some research about this few decades ago. You can find this book at http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=0895292343
I am not telling stop your normal medication and take this, you can add this as a supplement to your treatment and see it for yourself. If you want do discuss this with your doctor and I am sure he will not object to this along with your treatment, as this is 100% natural.
Wishing you a speedy recovery and loads of love.
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Dearest Lisa,
It’s truly been a very long while… and everyday, you are greatly missed.
I pray that things are good in your world and that you are more than well.
This may sound like an old broken record but it would really be wonderful to know how you are and if you are ok. It’s just that a lot of us deeply care to know that you are fine…
I hope that there are a lot of amazing things that adds to your day and that they make you all the more appreciate the wonderful rhythms of our world.
Always keeping you in thoughts & prayers,
–Nerissa
Lady Lisa,
sometimes our inner strength shines best in adversity
and will always shine even more for when there is a cure,
your everlasting endurance…and
your brave tears…
with love always
anjal
May 9th, 2010
To My Virtuous One…Lisa RaniRay……
Thinking of you with a heavy heart today but I promise you when I get to my mama today I’ll give her an extra hug and say my friend Lisa sent this for you mama!
All my Love to you today my baby- girl and I feel lost for words today… Love to your daddy also and you are in my heart always…. miss you though!
take good care and I’ll talk to you soon………
Rosemarie Ramnarine ( rosemarieramnarine@yahoo.com)
Hi Lisa,
I just got diagnosed with multiple myeloma. I saw an article about you in our daily newspaper and found your blog. Lovely. Thank you for your words.
I am also a writer, and a musician. In a past life, I was an actor and a playwright. I am your age.
I have just started on the dexamethasone, for the second time. I was on a small dosage when I was in the hospital to have a large brain tumour removed from my skull.
My myeloma is in my bones, not my blood, and most of the tumours appear to be in my skull at the moment. The first one was spectacular, the size of a small fist, but it has been removed. I am now recovering from that surgery as well as starting the frontline chemo treatment before my stem cell transplant.
Your story has inspired me and I would love to ask you some questions if you have time.
All the best for your recovery. I hope to hear from you some day.
Much love,
Jennifer (aka Casey, my stage name) Comeau
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Mother’s Day
While Wishing All the mothers and would be mothers
Heres another video post on youtube by Lisa Rays Numero Uno fan Jeni Chen…
On another note, happy mothers days y’all. No other treasure like mama in the world! And here hoping that in a year (or two) we will be wishing you on mothers day Ms. Ray. Cheers! Luv Luv Luv
be strong
be brave
I’m just watching I can’t think straight for the … 50th time. I love it, I love you, it’s a real masterpiece. You’re incredibly amazing …
It broke my heart when i learned what you are going through. Be strong, we’re all with you, I’m with you. My colombian-lebanese spirit is with you ♥
Take care.
Dear Lisa,
There is much to the concept of destiny.
You had your situation at the “right” time.
But alas my son Ranjan or John had it at the wrong time in 1998. At that time his condition (acute aplastic anemia) had no cure. No stem cell transplant was available.
So a handsome California bred young man died at the age of 23. He left his parents aghast. John was born in Minnesota and thus he had a frontiersman personality. When he acquired “the disease” he told me Dad I won the jackpot. For you see one in a two million people get the disease that he was blessed with. He worked hard at get rid of disease but his journey was a lonely one. For the medical profession had nothing to offer.
I remember the morning he died I was summoned to Stanford University Hospital. As I walked into the hospital something made me turn around and walk out. His spirit was leaving and he was making sure as he left this earthly existence the last few paces I his father accompanied him.
So we are all guided by the divine power who gives one a chance to remove all forms of exploitation from this Earth and others he just gives a gentle slumber.
So this was my eulogy at his funeral (from Gray ‘s Elegy)
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown.
Fair Science frown’d not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy mark’d him for her own.
Large was his bounty, his soul sincere,
Heav’n did a recompense as largely send:
He gave to Mis’ry all he had, a tear,
He gain’d from Heav’n (’twas all he wish’d) a friend.
No farther seek his merits to disclose,
Or draw his frailties from their dead abode,
(There they alike in trembling hope repose,)
The bosom of his Father and his God.
hi lovely. i stumbled onto your blog unexpectedly.. how inspiring you are! thank you for sharing your words and your experience. and your fantastic color. in the way that you’ve shared them.. it’s amazing how much love stuff is being sent your way! i too am sending a riverful:) congratulations.
lovelove and live joy *
erica
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
wich is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
~ee!
Good day, Ms. Lisa Ray of light! ))
When I see your smile and eyes on a photo, my heart is filled with joy
I think, you kind and very light person
You bring delight and LIGHT to people. And it is wonderful!
Thank you!
Much health to you! And happiness and LOVE+LOVE+LOVE!
:))
To brighten everyone’s day, Lisa Ray in People India magazine:
http://behindmyscenes-np.blogspot.com/2010/05/lisa-ray-in-people-india-mag.html
It’s a reminder of Life’s Magic, Hope and Divinity…
Much love, good vibes and sunshine for everyone,
–NP
Dear Jennifer,
Just letting you know that you have a person from the Philippines who is also supporting you…
Sending you prayers and May you have all the things & resources to help you in this new ‘twist on the road’…
Lots of Blessings and Hope,
–Nerissa
Hi Lisa, Very glad to know that you are doing well and facing up to your challenges with panache.
I have recently moved to Goa and would love to invite you over any time you need a peaceful break from the madding crowd. My website is http://www.arcoiris.in
Look forward to hosting you sometime. Till then, take care of your health! God bless!
Beni
like the words ache meets the water which washes it away
poetic
my best wishes
Wishing you all the best!
Have a magnificent day!
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Being a very strong-willed woman, obviously you’ll go your own way. But let me suggest you do a few things:
1. Read just the part of how a terminally-ill person beat the odds in “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” by Dale Carnegie.
2. EVERYBODY LIKES A TRAGIC HEROINE, that is the SAD TRUTH with today’s Media. Weren’t the greatest stories ending with a tragic heroine ? So, if I were you,I would have been rather cautious of being in the Limelight.
3. There are always places nearby like the Anada Spa or something like that in Narendranagar , as well as other places where nobody will notice you, you can stay away from the limelight, and HEAL YOURSELF.
4. Of course, you can blog from there….that would be more mysterious to the Media – Lisa Ray blogging and putting interesting stuff, from the present and past, on the Net, and in the printed Media.
But, in the end, perhaps, you will always be “Be yourself, I’m an Indian woman in …” Can’t find matching rhymes
I was Rishikesh in oct last. ..Water is the keeper of memories. All the best.
India is the one place I dreamed of going since i was a little girl and hope that i can go, give/do alot of charity work and find my roots before i die. Just to touch the water of the Ganges must be so heartfelt and amazing. Its so cool that you got to that.
There’s much more to praise than words can show!
All i want to say.. being a practitioner of the lotus sutra.. im going to send as much daimoku as i can.. so that you fill your life with courage and hope.. and ultimate happiness!!
thanks for being a source of motivation at this point in your life.. you’ve touched many hearts !!
thank you.
Lisa pozdrowienia z Polski. Jesteś silną i niesamowitą kobietą pokonasz to choróbsko. Wszyscy kochamy Cię i trzymamy za Ciebie kciuki….pa, pa.
Ula
Too Good
Ive just recently read about your heroic battle and victory! over MM. And am greatly inspired by your courage. I also have loved and am haunted by your powerful performances in Water and A World Unseen.
Am a psychotherapist living in southern California and have always been interested in deeply transformative and healing journeys like yours….I read your recent post on returning from Rishikesh and remembered that it is the homeland of one of my yoga masters Sivananda. When I trained many years ago to become a hatha yoga teacher at his Grass Valley ashram, my karma yogic duty each morning was to clean and sweep two small temples both of which were far-flung on the hilly edges of the sprawling ashram…I remember I had to run swiftly at the hours end to get back on time to the 12 noon Gita class in the main HQ, all sweaty and grinning and exhilarated by the run. And I always sensed that Sivananda ran with me in unseen winged flight…. Anyway, your post reminded me of my dream to visit Rishikesh one day…. And the vision of you there near its sacred waters with your father was lovely and deeply peaceful, peace-making.
From my fave Joan Borysenko in Pocketful of Miracles:
“Ian Gawler was a twenty-five-year-old veterinarian and decathlon athlete when his leg was amputated at the hip because of bone cancer. Within a few months, the cancer had metastasized throughout his body, and he was given two weeks to live. Instead of accepting the limitation of his prognosis, he married Grace, his veterinary nurse, and the two of them set about receiving healing on every level. They consulted energy healers and psychic healers. Ian changed his diet and spent hours each day in a form of deep, silent meditation similar to centering prayer. Over a period of four years the cancer gradually disappeared. Twenty years later, my husband and I asked Ian to what he attributed his remarkable healing. He answered, “Peace of mind.”
Sending you loving thoughts, Lisa, of deep peace & healing, and
Thank you for sharing your journey with such honesty and Grace,
Lynette
“Deep peace of the running wave to you…”
Thank you for sharing your story and by sharing you will inspire others. There are many of us out there (including myself) who have had similar illnesses and challenges in life. I found writing a good healer and my awakening. My book was published and now I get to share my challenges and to help others. I look forward to reading your book one day soon. Its times like these that we realise what is truly important in life and what things or people in life we need to let go. I view rejections as opportunities and indicators that it is not the right path for me. It is these challenges that the universe brings our way to make us search from within to connect to our true self and to our source. At the end of the day we only get one chance in life and as the Greeks say live each day as if it is your last. It is also important to laugh..it is by laughing at yourself and letting go that one can self heal. I also have a philosophy of eating food that has no negative imprint on it so the body can heal. Choose foods free of chemicals, that is in season etc. In summation keep positive and never stop dreaming…you become what you dream!!!
Hi, this blog is very interesting. I thank your selfishness for having needed to write about your cancer and not having kept it for yourself, sharing your experience.
My question:
Did you take these photos? the first one is great! i know you won’t answer me, anyway!
You are a great source of inspiration for people who need courage to be true to themselves and fight.
Thank you for existing, and sharing, even if you’re not updating anymore!
dearest lisa,it is the person who always has so much to say,but not anuff space.I got this far on finding your sights but it has been a rough one for me.I’m tring to get all your updated stuff and i’m having a heck of a time getting it.Did someone say book for dummies on how to use a computer.lol……ha…..ha…….I have had to fix my computer about 5 times today because of going to the wrong places.you don’t/didn’t give up on you,so I AM NOT as well.I will find a way to all of your sights,for as wonderful reading espeacially getting your up dated material.all my love and prayers.thanks
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Hello Ms. Lisa Raye,
It is good to hear you are a cancer survivor and recovering. I have a very close family friend (really he is more like family to us all) who has Myeloma and is as young as you. We would like to know what type of transplant you did:
* Autologous or
* Aullogenic?
He would really love to talk to you or would most appreciate a response.
Thank you so much for your time. I Look forward to hear from you.
Stephanie
Hey Lisa, I am Adrian David from Pakistan.. I am not alot in to film industry news, but today and just today i got to find out ur fight against cancer, and i am really inspired, and after reading and watching a couple of videos and a couple of interviews of urs, i’ve become a believer that, any disease in the world in cureable, what all that’s needed is strength in side and a positive attitude. God Bless You Lisa… Hope you’re cured by now… Takecare….
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Did you enjoy Rishikesh. Its a great place to be, quite hectic though.
I have fun with, lead to I discovered just what I was taking a look for. You’ve ended my 4 day lengthy hunt! God Bless you man. Have a nice day. Bye
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