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Raquel

Sweety, Sweety, Darling, Darling...You can never have enough hats, gloves and shoes...

About Me

I'm a work in progress. I value life. I love my family and friends. I like to laugh. I smile a lot. Am not patient enough. I enjoy company but love being alone. I love people who express themselves freely and are not afraid of what other people think.

My Interests

family and friends; movies that make me think; dancing and dancers; beautiful bodies; beautiful smiles; sunrises and sunsets; poetry, especially Pablo Neruda and Rilke, great conversations and interesting people; people that despite adversities still look at life as a blessing and who want to be better human beings; inner peace; balance and unconditional love.

I'd like to meet:

All the positive, open minded, interesting, confident, passionate, hopeless romantics, unafraid and unapologetic people out there...
You scored as Buddhism. Your beliefs most closely resemble those of Buddhism. Do more research on Buddhism and possibly consider becoming Buddhist, if you are not already.In Buddhism, there are Four Noble Truths: (1) Life is suffering. (2) All suffering is caused by ignorance of the nature of reality and the craving, attachment, and grasping that result from such ignorance. (3) Suffering can be ended by overcoming ignorance and attachment. (4) The path to the suppression of suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path, which consists of right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right-mindedness, and right contemplation. These eight are usually divided into three categories that base the Buddhist faith: morality, wisdom, and samadhi, or concentration. In Buddhism, there is no hierarchy, nor caste system; the Buddha taught that one's spiritual worth is not based on birth.

Buddhism


92%

Islam


71%

Christianity


67%

Judaism


50%

Paganism


50%

Satanism


29%

Hinduism


25%

agnosticism


0%

atheism


0%
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Music:

Madonna, Everything but the girl, Fletwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Depeche mode, Sade, Suzanne Vega, Cindy Lauper, Annie Lenox, Eurythmics, Dirty Vegas, Pink Floyd, Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos, Coldplay, Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada, Dido, the Doors, U2, Crystal Method, Prodigy, Morrissey, the Smiths, The Cure, Portishead, Cassia Eller, Bebel Gilberto, Maria Bethania, Tom Jobim, Marisa Monte, Chico Buarque, Tonny Bennet, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble and much more...

Movies:

The English Patient, The hours, Gone with the wind, Sunset boulevard, Cinema Paradiso, The 400 blows, Greed, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, American Beauty, Cinema Paradiso, Hable con Ella, Amores Perros; Y tu Mama Tambien, A streetcar named desire, Silence of the Lambs, The Secretary, Memento, Finding Neverland, The Constant Gardner, Brokeback Mountain, Whale Rider, Central Station, Like water for Chocolate, But I'm a cheerleader, Election, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Any Fred Astaire movie, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, Truth or Dare, Basquiat, Heavenly Creatures and any movie with Kate Winslet...

Television:

Will and Grace, Sex and the City, House, Law and Order, Ellen, L word, food network and the design channel.

Books:

"Unveiled Mysteries", "The I AM presence", "Romanceiro da Incofidencia" by Cecilia Meireles, "Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando" by Virginia Wolf, "Captain's Verses" by Pablo Neruda, "Letters to a young poet" by Rilke, "Collection of poems" by Baudelaire.

Heroes:

anybody who's creative, intelligent and has something positive to say...

My Blog

The Lake

This Quiet Lake That sits calmly by the edge of the city Worn out paths indicate that many people have passed through Some in a hurry Some lingered   I've been both. The one who hurriedly passes...
Posted by Raquel on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 02:30:00 PST

Walt Whitman...

"Beautiful dripping fragments.   The negligent list of one after another,                as I happen to call them to me.O...
Posted by Raquel on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:33:00 PST

Love

Because of you, in gardens of blossoming flowers I ache from theperfumes of spring.   I have forgotten your face, I no longer remember your hands;how did your lips feel on mine?  ...
Posted by Raquel on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:20:00 PST

Le Port

Un port est un sejour charmant pour une ame fatiguee de luttes de la vie. L'ampleur du ciel, l'architecture mobile des nuages, les colorations changeantes de la mer, le scintillement des phares, ...
Posted by Raquel on Thu, 18 May 2006 09:34:00 PST

HB

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. hold he infinity in the palm of your hands and eternity in an hour.       William Blake  ...
Posted by Raquel on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 08:33:00 PST

Ode

I wish I could write infinitely About all the beauties and senses And be able to truly describe how I feel But words fail me now   Unlike my feelings; Always vibrant and flexible; Always eloquen...
Posted by Raquel on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:24:00 PST

Bandeira da Inconfidência

Bandeira da Inconfidência Através de grossas portas sentem-se luzes acesase há indagações minuciosas dentro das casas fronteirasolhos colados aos vidros, mulheres e homens à espreitacaras disformes d...
Posted by Raquel on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:41:00 PST

Unsure...

For whatever reason I keep coming back to the same place This worn out path in which not much light shines on It is not as if I had envisioned it to be this way Everything seems rather bleak now  ...
Posted by Raquel on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:55:00 PST

Insight...

One of the best movies ever made; the hours, to me represents all that a film should be. Here are few exerpts. "this is my right. it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating an...
Posted by Raquel on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:41:00 PST

the english patient...

...the fire is gone now, and I'm  horribly cold.  I really ought todrag myself outside but then there would be the sun... I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings and on writi...
Posted by Raquel on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:17:00 PST