Dear One,

   Thought you might enjoy some words written expressly from your 
inspiration...("madonna.html," attached, from my webpage, address 
below).

    If you think back to circa 1989-91, especially when I was living in 
Petaluma and finishing my "City of Nights" filmscript--my occasional 
nights at "Steamer's Gold Landing" my treat for a good day's work--you 
may remember the underlying "source" material in my piece...(ya usta 
drop by, or so I've heard, with the filmmaker George Lucas, ta check out 
"the scene"...I guess ya like those front of the foot kicks to the back 
of one's calves for punctuation...)

best wishes for you; may your daughter be a genius like her mommy,
tom  



Thomas Francis Noonan, SAKYA LAMA
"Globe of Dharma Enterprises"
2124 Kittredge St. #110, Berkeley, CA 94704
voicemail: (510)-549-8828#540

  DHARMA-IN-EXILE:
         http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/8501 

Attorney: Patrick [and Terence] Hallinan, Law Offices
"Jackson,Tufts, Cole and Black,"
650 California St., 32nd Floor
 San Francisco, CA 
(415)-433-1950 (message as Patrick's client...)

--"Him do I hate who even as the gates of hell who says one thing while 
he hides another in his heart."
                Achilleus in Homer's *The Iliad*, Book IX

--"...Better than brute strength of men, or horses either, 
is the wisdom that is mine..."
                Xenophanes (545B.C.) #1, trans. R. Lattimore

--'Petty people imitating others will use this in a perverse and 
sinister way, even getting to the point where they can destroy families 
and usurp countries.  Without wisdom and knowledge, you cannot preserve 
your home with justice and cannot preserve your country with the way.'
         re: *tsung-heng-hsuen from 'The Master of Demon Valley,'
         18,19, a classic Taoist text translated by Thomas Cleary,
         'Thunder in the Sky' (Shambhala, 1993)

--'What is gained by tears will go by tears.  In the end, goodness 
   Reaps many good things, though it begins with loss.'
               Gurudeva's Vedic Trikurals,Verse 659
Verse 660:

         'Protecting the country by wrongly garnered wealth 
          Is like preserving water in an unbaked pot of clay.' 

--"And when he stumbleth striking there his foot,
Fallen on evil days, the tyrant's pride
Shall measure all the miserable length
That parts rule absolute from servitude.'
                Aeschylus, *Prometheus Bound*

--The Bhagavad Gita explains, "As a blazing fire
reduces the wood to ashes, O Arjuna, so does the fire of knowledge 
reduce all activity to ashes. There is nothing on earth which possesses 
such power  to cleanse as wisdom. The perfect yogin finds this knowledge 
in himself by
himself in due time." Aum Namah Sivaya.

--"...principles form[ing] the bright constellation of that which has 
gone before us, and guided our steps..."
     Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801

--"Fierce courage is what they call valor,
And Chivalry to the fallen forms its sharp edge."
          Gurudeva, Trikural Vedas, v.773

--"The intellectual should constantly disturb, should bear 
witness to the misery of the world, should be provacative 
by being independent, should rebel against all hidden and 
open pressures and manipulations,should be the chief doubter of 
systems...and for this reason, an intellectual cannot fit into any role 
that might be assigned to him...and essentially doesn't belong anywhere: 
he stands out as an irritant wherever he is."
   --Vaclav Havel, quoted by Alan Clements, *Aung San Suu Kyi, The Voice 
of Hope*
       (Seven Stories Press, 1997), p. 121

--"...We will try it out with you, ye that have harried and held,
Ye that have bullied and bribed, tyrants, hypocrites, liars!"
             --Padraic (Patrick Henry) Pearse (1879-1916)

--"If there is one tall pine-tree standing, the forest has not ended..."
          Olde Tibetan saying


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