Comments for Passages From India http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india Mount Madonna School students explore the meaning of happiness. Thu, 17 May 2012 09:09:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 Comment on Journey’s End? by Charlotte deHeinrich http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/04/15/journeys-end/#comment-192 Charlotte deHeinrich Sun, 27 May 2007 01:54:47 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/04/15/journeys-end/#comment-192 I have not met any of you in person and yet I feel intimately connected. Thank you for sharing your experiences, so genuinely, so deeply, do personally. I am moved to tears every time I explore your site and when I read your journals to my children. The ripple effects of this project are felt around the world. I am in Canada and everyone in my small circle has been expanded because of your experience. Thank you. I have not met any of you in person and yet I feel intimately connected. Thank you for sharing your experiences, so genuinely, so deeply, do personally. I am moved to tears every time I explore your site and when I read your journals to my children. The ripple effects of this project are felt around the world.

I am in Canada and everyone in my small circle has been expanded because of your experience.

Thank you.

]]> Comment on Journey’s End? by Rennie http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/04/15/journeys-end/#comment-191 Rennie Wed, 02 May 2007 17:34:50 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/04/15/journeys-end/#comment-191 Thank you Mt. Madonna and Sadanand for making this possible. Having gotten to share the last seven years with this group of fine young people, I am amazed, overwhelmed and moved to tears of joy by this experience. Reading of their travels and seeing them meet powerful people. Seeing them work as a TEAM while playing volleyball. These are the youth we are entrusting our world to and I think, I'm okay with that. Go forth Noble Youth and save the world! :) Thank you Mt. Madonna and Sadanand for making this possible. Having gotten to share the last seven years with this group of fine young people, I am amazed, overwhelmed and moved to tears of joy by this experience. Reading of their travels and seeing them meet powerful people. Seeing them work as a TEAM while playing volleyball. These are the youth we are entrusting our world to and I think, I’m okay with that.
Go forth Noble Youth and save the world! :)

]]> Comment on Journey’s End? by Anita http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/04/15/journeys-end/#comment-190 Anita Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:10:59 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/04/15/journeys-end/#comment-190 I have enjoyed vicariously your trip and it has been wonderful and exciting to have such an adventure in your lives. I just wished I could have been there with you all and had the sounds and smells of India..You are so fortunate to see what you have seen and hopefully will carry it with you the reat of your life... I have enjoyed vicariously your trip and it has been wonderful and exciting to have such an adventure in your lives. I just wished I could have been there with you all and had the sounds and smells of India..You are so fortunate to see what you have seen and hopefully will carry it with you the reat of your life…

]]> Comment on Day Twelve by Prajna and Ted Hallstrom http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/03/30/day-twelve/#comment-189 Prajna and Ted Hallstrom Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:21:06 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/03/30/day-twelve/#comment-189 We are friends of John-Nuri's parents who have lived in India for a year, who study with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and are thinking of starting a school like Mt. Madonna in the Boston area. We are so incredibly moved by all of your writing! Thank you so much for sharing about your amazing trip in such a heartfelt way. We literally cried through every day's entries and felt like we were right along with you. We will be at Mt. Madonna for the Ramayana in June and simply can't wait to meet all of you from there who were part of this project. Jai Ma! We are friends of John-Nuri’s parents who have lived in India for a year, who study with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and are thinking of starting a school like Mt. Madonna in the Boston area. We are so incredibly moved by all of your writing! Thank you so much for sharing about your amazing trip in such a heartfelt way. We literally cried through every day’s entries and felt like we were right along with you. We will be at Mt. Madonna for the Ramayana in June and simply can’t wait to meet all of you from there who were part of this project. Jai Ma!

]]> Comment on Day Twelve - Extra Photos by Dorji Gyaltsen http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/day-twelve-extra-photos/#comment-188 Dorji Gyaltsen Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:04:04 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/day-twelve-extra-photos/#comment-188 Dear friends, its a great pleasure and ecstatic to meet all of you outspoken and understanding guys from mt madonna school. i really miss and cherished the short but memomorable moment we have tasted together. you all are so frank and amiable that i really feel like imitating alot of positve facets from you all. its like on the fire and pain like frostbite to part away from you all. thanks for the empathy that jeremy had for all of our tcv student who had missed they most sacred virtue to get blessing from our leader dalai lama. have a nice time and moment. withe love and cheer dorji tcv Dear friends,
its a great pleasure and ecstatic to meet all of you outspoken and understanding guys from mt madonna school. i really miss and cherished the short but memomorable moment we have tasted together. you all are so frank and amiable that i really feel like imitating alot of positve facets from you all.
its like on the fire and pain like frostbite to part away from you all. thanks for the empathy that jeremy had for all of our tcv student who had missed they most sacred virtue to get blessing from our leader dalai lama.
have a nice time and moment.
withe love and cheer
dorji
tcv

]]> Comment on Day Eleven by Valerie Justus-Rusconi http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/03/28/day-eleven/#comment-187 Valerie Justus-Rusconi Fri, 06 Apr 2007 19:10:14 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/03/28/day-eleven/#comment-187 I have just finished reading all your entries and am sitting here wiping away tears. I am so happy for these beautiful experiences to be part of you. Brightest blessings to you all. I have just finished reading all your entries and am sitting here wiping away tears. I am so happy for these beautiful experiences to be part of you. Brightest blessings to you all.

]]> Comment on Day Twelve - Extra Photos by Sr. Therese http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/day-twelve-extra-photos/#comment-186 Sr. Therese Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:45:35 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/day-twelve-extra-photos/#comment-186 Dear Naomi, Your Grandmother Jennie sent this to me and I loved your article which was filled with so much love. What a grace-filled experience for you all and I gift that will remain with you forever. Congratulations on getting into USD. I think you will love it and they surely will love you. Be sure to stop in and see Fr. Dan when you get there. He'll be a good friend. Happy holidays and blessings, Therse Dear Naomi,

Your Grandmother Jennie sent this to me and I loved your article which was filled with so much love. What a grace-filled experience for you all and I gift that will remain with you forever.

Congratulations on getting into USD. I think you will love it and they surely will love you. Be sure to stop in and see Fr. Dan when you get there. He’ll be a good friend.

Happy holidays and blessings,
Therse

]]> Comment on Day Eleven - Extra Photos by Karen http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/day-eleven-extra-photos/#comment-185 Karen Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:19:11 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/day-eleven-extra-photos/#comment-185 Thank you all so much for sharing your experiences and feelings. I can't read your comments without tears. It touches me so deeply and makes me feel loved. Karen from Hamburg Germany Thank you all so much for sharing your experiences and feelings. I can’t read your comments without tears. It touches me so deeply and makes me feel loved. Karen from Hamburg Germany

]]> Comment on Day Eleven - Extra Photos by Susan Tova http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/day-eleven-extra-photos/#comment-184 Susan Tova Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:01:59 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/day-eleven-extra-photos/#comment-184 Upon hearing about your upcoming trip from my cousin, Richard Nanas, I remembered the thrill of seeing the Dalai Lama twice in Santa Barbara. But that does not even touch the thrill you have had to see him in his element, with the other devoted ones. I am so appreciative of your courage and vision, to share this experience of peace at a time of such need for peace! Thanks also to the Vissells for spreading the word throughout their network, which is how it reached me.The radiance of your faces will touch many hearts. Namaste, Susan Tova, Santa Ynez CA Upon hearing about your upcoming trip from my cousin, Richard Nanas, I remembered the thrill of seeing the Dalai Lama twice in Santa Barbara. But that does not even touch the thrill you have had to see him in his element, with the other devoted ones.
I am so appreciative of your courage and vision, to share this experience of peace at a time of such need for peace! Thanks also to the Vissells for spreading the word throughout their network, which is how it reached me.The radiance of your faces will touch many hearts.
Namaste,
Susan Tova, Santa Ynez CA

]]> Comment on Day Twelve by Grandma Helen Vissell http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/03/30/day-twelve/#comment-183 Grandma Helen Vissell Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:50:35 +0000 http://www.santacruzlive.com/blogs/india/2007/03/30/day-twelve/#comment-183 To my grandson John-Nuri: I am so proud of your talents which include your writing ability. But more than that, I am happy that you discern and appreciate goodness and truth as with this experience with the Dali Lama. Life is so complex and offers so many paths and opportunities that I am grateful that, at your early age, you respond to honest emotions. God bless you. With much love, Grandma Helen To my grandson John-Nuri: I am so proud of your talents which include your writing ability. But more than that, I am happy that you discern and appreciate goodness and truth as with this experience with the Dali Lama. Life is so complex and offers so many paths and opportunities that I am grateful that, at your early age, you respond to honest emotions. God bless you. With much love, Grandma Helen

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