Yesterday at a concert in a church in Sweden they played Arvo Pärts music in a setting with candles all over the church. When Spiegel im Spiegel was playing i looked around and could see people with their eyes closed, someone cried, someone layed down, someone looked up. It made me feel that we were all connected. We are all in need of support and everyone is carrying their unique luggage. It is a beautiful song that really brings a lot of feelings. Simplicity from a master composer who understands that less is more.
Wow. Music is truly some of the highest human expression. I don't think we fear what divides us, so much as what connects us.......anyway I'm playing this piece again as I type these words.
I appreciate this will probably not be read by many, and that's okay, it's more for me anyway. I have had a very difficult past few years, especially this year, i have lost relationships, love ones, and jobs. I have spent all year practically iscolated from society in my room wallowing in despair and self pity. I have on a couple of occasions come close to calling it a day with life. The only thing that has brought be back was the look on my dogs face in those moments of feeling empty and worthless. He looks at me like im the best person on the planet. And it makes me continue on for his sake. In many ways he has been my guardian angel, I don't have much else other than him. This song reminds me of those moments, whilst also giving me a feeling of courage to continue, just as my dog does.. To anyone who feels iscolated and alone, don't give up. There will most certainly be better days to come, and better people in your life. And if maybe you feel too alone to some up the strength, maybe get a dog? Not many things can make you feel as valued as them smiling right at you.. Thanks for reading to those who did, I start my first job in over a year next week, things may work out yet. Much love
I feel you my friend you're not alone, I've been in almost the same situation for the last 4 years of my life, except I don't have a dog yet. Your words made me feel that I'm not alone and there's someone who can relate and understand. Thank you so much. Hugs for your lovely dog. And I hope you like the new job, and it will be a good start for a fresh life.
I've never related to anything more in my life. My dog emotionally and even once physically saved my life. Thankyou for sharing. I had a really good cry. Love
When I feel blue I listen to this and read the comments. It’s like we are all on the same delicate vessel trying to navigate the mysteries of the universe. Thank you.
My daughter suffered a massive heart attack when she was two weeks old. She spent 6 weeks in ICU hooked up to machines. The doctors said she would die but she lived, the doctors don't really know why. I played this tune over and over in her room in the ICU. Thank you Arvo Part. Thank you everyone and everything, I love you. Especially those who know what this music does. It is a blessing. Peace.
I hope your beautiful baby girl is giving you the flux with trying to keep up with her and all her energy. This piece brings peace and calmness. Blessings and good health to you and your family.😊
I’m really glad to hear that she pulled through. I wonder if she’ll hear this song as an adult and it will move her in a different way, something deep in her subconscious that speaks to her will to survive.
I took care of my Mom for almost 8 years. Hardest thing I ever did. The last few months I discovered this piece. I would turn my Mom on her side and give her her back rub and then do all the range of motion listening to this over and over, telling her what an awesome Mom she was. I knew by this point she never liked herself, but I was gonna let her know over and over how awesome she was. Thank you for making our bag lunches every single day. And anything else I could think of. When she passed the room glowed. Thank you Mom.
Your love for her was so beautiful. The way she bathed and carried you when you were young- so you did the same for her when she was passing. I teared up reading this, especially since there is no bitterness in your description, only tenderness. Bless you and your family.
This song talks to us. It says: ‘ stop. Stop with what you are doing, stop thinking, stand still for a while, and just be. We are not created for endless worry and struggle. Remember who you are. We are born from the stars, not from downtrodden earth. We are the light that shines through us. Don’t you remember? Remember, dear human! ‘ Thank you for reminding us, Arvo.
The English translation of this is "Mirror In the Mirror," so, to me, it means to stop and reflect inwardly- on myself. My internal dialog, my thoughts, my feelings. What have I learned about myself today? Where can I improve? What could I have done differently to avoid hurting my friend's feelings? How can I make it up to her? That sort of thing.
My mother passed away this morning. A few weeks ago I became aware again of this beautiful piece of music. goshmargo’s comment helped me to release emotions that were deep inside me as I cared for my mum. Yesterday, as she slept her final sleep, I listened to it again. I told her once more how much I loved her and how grateful I was for all the love she had given me, beginning with carrying me for those nine months before I was born 56 years ago; taking me to piano lessons, to swimming lessons; always being there for me, etc. The music made me feel that the two of us were in a film together, in scenes from the many wonderful times we had shared. I cried my heart out. Then the music stopped and I was back in the room. Thank you, Arvo Pärt, for this beautiful creation.
I know it's a year old but your comment struck me like a thunderbolt. My mum has been ill with dementia for 8 years or so. Reduced to a shell of a person, non verbal, no responses etc. I always think of her when I hear this piece, it always makes me cry. It helps process my emotions, the ones I keep buried away but hearing this is like opening a valve, it's an unconscious action. I hope you're doing ok, thinking about you and how we cherish our mothers.
@@johnnyutah7010 I'm sorry to hear about your mother. It must be very difficult to deal with her still being here, yet not being here. Although it's been been very difficult losing my mum, there are many things I'm grateful for. I feel the same as you about this piece and the effect it has on me. I wish you well.
My mom used to tell me something written by an ancient mystic : " All shall be well. All shall be well. And all manner of things shall be well." She'd say that when I was too depressed and lonely to see any light - like so many of us here...anyway...she died in 2016. Her last words were, " You must all love each other. You must all love each other." I miss her so much.
That’s a lovely quotation. I am sorry for your loss. I hope time has smoothed over the raw pain. Some further details about the author of the quotation are here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich
It seems to tell you, "Cry. Let the tears fall, and leave them untouched. It's okay to cry. For from crying comes catharsis, and from catharsis... comes peace."
I listened to this song for the first time at 0:15 am on Jan 1st 2020. I was driving back home at the middle of the night. Music was random on Spotify, and this beauty came up. The city was so peaceful. I drove through a residential area. I saw beautiful Christmas decorations, and cars clustered outside some homes. It was like time has stopped. It felt like that. So slow, so peaceful. I started thinking about how each home, each family, has its own story, its own relationships, traditions, its own pain, and its own love. Then the idea of all of that is going to end at some time came, and I thought life was so pointless, so trivial, yet enormously beautiful. I recommend this sensation to everyone.
Please don't ever delete this on youtube, so I could come back to the comment section to read people's stories. I've been doing this since 2017. It's heartwarming to see that whether the stories are good or bad they always end with hope and love. These stories remind us of our humanity in a world that often feels lost, and a reminder that whatever happens always stay kind. It goes a long way. It's also nice to know that people discovered this song through 'The Good Place'. I ugly cried when they used this masterpiece for the ending. I never thought it would be featured in a series. This song is also used in the movie 'About Time'. A must watch for everyone, so many life lessons, my husband and I cried like babies during one of the scenes when this song played.
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I work at a coffee shop. We usually play jazz and folk music throughout the day. One day, after I told everyone that we were closing up and that they had to go, I put on this song. Everone shuffled out the door and there was only one woman left. She was cleaning up a stack of papers that she was reading and she told me she would be on her way out. I told her to take her time. As I was counting the till she came up to the counter and asked if she could stay until this song was over. I told her that would be fine. Ten minutes later she came up to the counter, with small tears on her cheeks and said, "Thank you, I needed that." I've always felt a profound attachment to this song. A kind of solace, a place to go to think; just about anything. I still wonder what was going on inside of her listening to this. It seemed important. More important than what goes on inside of me while listening to this, although both are puzzling. I still keep coming back to this song trying to figure out what it's all about.
My wife and I have some discs of Arvo Pärt and we sometimes listen to them while driving. One day we stopped at a church, in front of the sea while this piece was playing. I couldn't stop the car, just stopped the engine but let the music playing. Something was happening. The music, the movement of the waves, the light, the moment, us... everything was connected in this second and whe kept listening to the music, without a word. It's beautiful how none of us had to talk, we just stopped everything at the same moment and stayed silent. It was almost religious. I think it was in some way. Or we can call it an "aesthetic moment".
Just heard this on radio 3. Hugged my autistic son and told him I love him. Now I'm standing, holding my phone, tears rolling down my face. How can a piece of music do that? Then I read the comments. Thank you, all of you for sharing in this and your lives.
Well, a 27-year old autistic son is sat in the home office of his non-biological father with tears rolling down his face, so I'd suggest a piece of music does that a lot. As someone with autism, (specifically high-functioning Aspergers), this song speaks to us. I've forever had problems playing this, sometimes when things going on around me were so traumatic, so chaotic, so unrelentingly fucking horrible, and this music is so quiet. Right now though I'm listening to it on a hi-spec office computer we use for our business linked to a sound system that could deafen me.
This comment will probably slip away in the infinity of other comments down here, but hearing this song played live by Arvo laying underneath the piano when I was about 10 years old has to be the best memory I have. Would pay everything I have to go back to that enchanting moment.
i want to express a personal gratitude for all of the amazing humans that have commented on this lovely piece. The outpouring of compassion, vulnerability, and understanding is truly moving. Thanks you, all.
I first heard this song back in 2019. I was sitting in a halfway house in Texas after being let out of prison on parole. Before my release, I was placed in an intensive drug program, where I took on the daunting task of looking at myself and discovering who I really am. After months of anger, loathing, denial and inner struggle, I finally made peace with my darkness. This song showed me that there is still hope, joy and wonder in the world. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with saying goodbye to all you've ever known, emerging from the shell you once were, to just be.
Well done. You should be proud of yourself. And I know one day you can keep the circle of hope alive by sharing your knowledge to someone who needs it on your path.
Keep yourself strong.. life is a wonderful ride, but is hard to understand sometimes. We all have broken pieces in us, but the light find its way inside our souls through the cracks..
When my mom died some years ago, the world went completely dark and silent. For the first and last time in my life I couldn't listen to music. Naturally, it was Arvo Pärt's music that brought me back to the land of the living... Two years ago on September 11th, on Arvo Pärt's birthday, I pressed through the crowd at his traditional birthday concert in Tallinn, shook his hand and with my heart in my throat, told him my story and thanked him for giving me a lifeline when I needed it the most. This I will never forget.
He wrote this just prior to emigrating from Estonia when he was 45 to get away from the Soviets. The house he grew up in had a piano with a damaged middle register so he would play only in the high and low registers, never being able to play simple chords like the ones throughout this piece. It's like he's saying goodbye but it takes him so long to do it. A great man
Blimey, this was a while ago when i was doing an essay on the piece. I think I was probably drunk, that bit at the top is definitely true, the rest is just rambling tbh
I listened to this for the first time yesterday. Last Monday my wife had cancer surgery after a few weeks waiting. By myself preparing her evening meal at home I shed my first tears, love is so strong.
When I was young, my mother and I watched the movie Witt together. We cried our eyes out, just shook by the song and message of the movie. Years later, I played this song for my mother while she was on her deathbed, dying from metastatic breast cancer. I'll always think of her when i hear it.
I am proud to be your swedish neighbour. Wish we could work more together with the Nordic and the Baltic countries. We have the same roots and history.
When my depression got me so emotionless that i´m not able to cry anymore...I load this video, hear the music and start reading the comments and everything streams out of my soul. I´m so thankful for Arvo Pärt, this magic piece of music and all the people here sharing their emotions. It´s so soul healing !!!
I'm very late but you deserve it. Congratulations and huge respect for bringing in another beautiful soul who will do great things. Hope it is going well for you. Have fun. Make the most of it.
Also very late, but even so, congratulations, mate. I will never forget holding my son and daughter for the first time. That tiny baby was so much more. It is an awesome task, but being a father is something for which I would not trade the world. My kids have been drifting off to sleep to this many times since.
I remember listening to this while staring out the window of an airplane, at the clouds as it slowly got darker and the day ended. It was the most peaceful moment of my entire life...
itzzhenry, my name is Noam. I’m a freelance radio journalist doing a piece about the stories people shared on this page. I’m wondering if I could speak to you about your story. I found it pretty moving. You can email me at noamosband@gmail.com Thanks.
The first time I had a panic attack in front of my fiancé (boyfriend at the time), he just held me and turned on this song. I cried as we listened to the whole thing. Now, we’re playing this song as I walk down the aisle. ♡
My daughter has severe anxiety she's only 13 but I'm hoping pieces like this can help her, glad it helped you congratulations on getting married, happy for you x x
Ah, but our lovely sun will finish off life on Earth long before. Life on this planet is already over 95% of the way along its timeline. The sun will boil away the oceans within about 300 million years. By the time the sun fades away, this planet will have been dead for billions of years.
There, we will meet everyone and all our loved ones, the Existence itself will rejoice and dance while we finally arrive at home and become One! I will be there soon, my beloved father. Thank you for the honor of being your son...
I played this piece after my husband passed away. One of my little children came up to me and said, "Mom, this song sounds like Daddy dying." Out of the mouths of babes. RIP, my love.
When flying to Japan last year, I listened to this song many times and thought of all I had gone through to get there. Many years of complete abuse as a child. Growing up in a broken home. Having next to nothing growing up. Having to break into a home I was evicted from to get clothing. Literally being homeless. To working so hard as an adult. Sleeping on a couch through college. And, finally, I had a career that afforded to the opportunity to travel. As I began to descend on the flight, I bawled my eyes out. I had officially made it in life.
@@ivelissecolonperez404 I was kicked out of my home when I was 18 years old. My grandparents were kind enough to let me sleep on their couch. I worked multiple jobs while maintaining an honors GPA in college. When I finished college, I found a job almost immediately making more money than I ever dreamed of making. I took trips around America, and finally decided to go to Japan. It was a great experience. Prior to Covid this year, I would've set foot on Africa and Europe before turning 30 years old. Life was difficult growing up. My mother and father split when I was 10 years old. My mom dated a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, in the process emptying the bank accounts set up for myself and my 2 siblings. This fellow then stole my Christmas presents when I was 12 years old to buy cigarettes at our local WalMart. I faced severe depression and anger issues for years because of this. There's much much more to this story, but, thankfully God shone his light my way, allowed me to see the righteous path, and helped me to make myself a comfortable life.
Caleb, my name is Noam. I’m a freelance radio journalist doing a piece about the stories people shared on this page. I’m wondering if I could speak to you about your story. I found it pretty moving. You can email me at noamosband@gmail.com Thanks.
Thank you for sharing. I wonder: does going through hardship make us nicer people? It certainly teaches us a lot about valuing life. Open your heart :-)
I’m a nurse, one of those nurses who are there where no one can be holding your hand when you’re fighting against death, against covid. The most difficult thing I’ve done in my entire life. Every unspoken word, every look you give me, every fear you have. i will keep it as the most important treasure someone can receive. This song give me the strength i need to remember every single soul i lost. “And death shall be no more, death thou shall die” - Jhon Donne
Thank you for being courageous enough to take on the pain of others, and to embrace the vicarious moments you have with each person. It is what we do best as humans at the deepest core of our being. Help one another. You are incredible
Warmhearted greetings, routed in hope and HIS love, who leads us through all this!! Stay blessed!! A collegue hospital nurse from an oncological palliative care in Germany
Deep darkness has fallen on my country, it seems there is no hope for the next sunrise... But this masterpiece helps to be rational, to be ok... Thank you all people who are against war, against murders, against Evil...
I just finished The Good Place. It is the first time in a long while that television made me cry. They each found a way to go gentle into that good night. They were waves in the ocean, though faded onto the shoreline, their echoes felt across an endless rippling sea that accepted them in peace and fulfillment.
I've always been fascinated by music's ability to bring people together. Millions of people, all living separate lives and dealing with different circumstances, all coming together and being moved by such a simple yet complex piece of music. I doubt anybody will see this, but if you do, I wish you strength and perseverance for any problems you are facing. I feel a little more human after this, and I'll do my best to never take that for granted.
Around 2004 I heard this on the local Classical radio station. It was winter, I was depressed. I stood in front of the window watching the snowfall, and listened. This music brought to the surface my grief, my tears, my hopelessness. Yet, it brought peace to my heart. The Human Condition. So beautiful, so poignant. So full of everything. I cried and released so much. Thank you, Arvo.
I am currently listening to this song for the first time while watching a snow storm through my window. Coincidentally today seems to marks the first day in about three months where I've been able to get out of bed and be productive on my own without feeling too bad about it. I've been going through an intense depressive episode that now seems to be giving the first signs of going away finally. This comment section was so pure I felt like sharing something as well. Thank you :)
Lisa, my name is Noam. I’m a freelance radio journalist doing a piece about the stories people shared on this page. I’m wondering if I could speak to you about your story. I found it pretty moving. You can email me at noamosband@gmail.com Thanks.
The first time I ever laid eyes on my wife, she was dancing to this song in college. Five years later we got married as this song played. Arvo Pärt will always be close to my heart, for this piece and his entire body of work. He is one of the finest there ever has been.
Most of us had a rough childhood. Maybe we never got any love from our fathers. We've been dealing with the traumas he's left us all our lives. I've worked so hard, I can't heal myself, my soul hurts so much. I found myself in this piece, crying and resting as I listen. Relaxing...
I have never, in 35 years sat still for 10 minutes until I heard this song just now. What beautiful music that was. I’m in awe. Thank you for sharing this magic with the world.
I remember listening to this for the first time with an old friend who is sadly no longer with us. We both sat silent attempting to hold back the tears. A moment shared that will last a lifetime. Fly high Alan and thank you for sharing such wonderful music with me.
Year after year, this commentary section continues to be a beacon in our moments of despair, loneliness and doubt. Even if we still don't know where we're going next, those few moments here always have the same effect: we understand each other, without even knowing each other. And I love you all for that. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
It is 1:15 AM, and I’m sitting on my bed in the dark, tears falling down my face having just come here from The Good Place finale. And as I read through these comments, it makes me want to start crying again. Things have been confusing lately, and I’m worried and I don’t know what the future holds for me. But the good place, this song, this very comment section has made me feel so much emotion. It’s stunning, just absolutely beautiful. In some way, this feels like the sound of a life well lived to me, one where you’ve experienced this world, really lived in it, and you’ve taken all those experiences and transformed it into something unique, something fresh, something that’ll help form the lives of many fellow human beings. I want to lead that life, I want to make something worthwhile. Goodnight folks, I love you all so much.
This piece of music as sad as it sounds reminds us how fractured life can be for many. The pain and suffering that people endure in their lifetime is truly terrible.😢 Be strong people and i wish you all good will...❤
im listening to this song in my room after having online gradution ceremony of college. i feel so sad because i never have my proper goodbye for my friends and all my expectations are ruined but then i read all the comments and it helped me to feel better than before. in this particular time, i feel peaceful and if i were in the movie maybe right now is my ending scene where i will let go my college days and looking forward to my next obstacles in life. thank you for this beautiful song.
It just goes to show you we humans were never meant to hurt eachother and kill, we dont have claws, the best eyesight and extra legs and arms, we were made to solve this journey together. I hope the world sees this and thinks a bit differently.
+adam kendrick All we can do is to cultivate love, kindness, forgiveness and compassion in our own hearts. It's not for us to change the world or to judge those in it.
+adam kendrick Yet mankind is the only known species with such elaborated methods of killing self and other. People are not kind they sometimes benefit from not being aggressive and hostile.
+Karol “keik” Karpiński I had a mental breakdown after getting into a fight with a kid who had tormented me for over a year, constantly annoying and harrasing me until I lost all friends, found out my best friend was making fun of me behind my back for the last four years, and was falling into depression simply because I was afraid because I was in a position in which I could have seriously hurt someone, even the person I absolutely hated. I live for my friends, without them I have nothing. Humans are also the only ones who have developed such advanced ways of socialization that span the world, the only ones able to create.
That's... incredible and beautiful. I'm screenshotting it and writing it down and sharing it. I'm grateful to have read something like that; we were meant to pass through this world together. Thank you.
I heard this piece for the first time last Sunday. I had had a very hard day dealing with my depression and my friend played it for me. The song made me weep with joy. The piano part was a metaphor for all those who support me in a constant and untiring way. The cello line was myself, searching with curiosity and wonder, safe in the knowledge that I am loved and supported. I am so grateful for all of you who love this piece too 🙏 ❤
+Rebecca Burden i did attend a concert of his music at the bridgewater hall in manchester, england, last year. i did spot arvo at the side of the stage. i waved to the master, he smiled and he put his forefinger to his lips, as if to say shush. so i kept his being there to myself. he did come out at at the end of the event to take a bow, bless him :)
Yes true, but will only be heard by those who chose not to be in the herd. Odd cows who stray by the fence line hear, and stay away from the corral - where only bleating is heard.}:=|
I heard this piece for the first time last Sunday. I had had a very hard day dealing with my depression and my friend played it for me. The song made me weep with joy. The piano part was a metaphor for all those who support me in a constant and untiring way. The cello line was myself, searching with curiosity and wonder, safe in the knowledge that I am loved and supported. I am so grateful for all of you who love this piece too 🙏 ❤
My husband recently passed last month, and this song played in my head when I sat beside him holding his hand telling him that I loved him and thank you so much for all the adventures we went through together. I love and miss him dearly.
As a professional musician who has given pleasure to many people through music but become disenchanted with it and not performed for some time now these comments have restored my faith in what I really need to do and the importance of what I do and inspired me to go out and continue to perform..thankyou everyone...
When you have walked that road for so, so long, beside you ,your parents at first holding your tiny hand, with your brothers and sisters, you had all the energy in the world ,then with your beloved, what warm times and oh! your beautiful children. You saw them grow, you were there for them, the ups and downs, saw them go out into the big scary world but you were so proud of them. They were there for you as you were for them when they lost a grandparent and a mother and you lost a parent and your true love. I can see the end of this road now and it has been so long and I am now so very, very tired. But what a walk it has been. I can see it, the sunlight, it is so very bright, almost blinding, I am not scared though. Time to sleep!
We're having a great time on the couch right now. Chilling and reading comments of people who share their experiences. Keep em going. From Nedjoua & Frank: two people who met each other against all odds, we both live thousands of miles away from each other and happened to land in the same bar at exactly the right time in a completely foreign country to both of us. We have exactly thirteen days left together and will probably never see each other again. It's all bittersweet, but i would say the sweet part wins. We've made beautiful memories that will go on and that's more than what most people get. 14/06/2019
So it's been a year since I wrote this comment, and I thought I'd come back here to give some updates, not that I think anyone cares but I just felt like doing it anyway. Frank and I haven't met again since we parted ways unfortunately, not because we didn't want to but the circumstances are just complicated (visa stuff and whatnot). We tried doing the long distance thing for a while but we both knew it wouldn't work out and surely enough it didn't, we were both heartbroken. But as time passes by I realize more and more that we were simply not meant for each other, which doesn't mean what we had wasn't precious, it was and always will be. But little by little you understand what's best for you isn't always necessarily what you really want. However we still remained good friends. This past month of June has been particularly hard because I found myself reminiscing a lot about what happened a year ago around this time. It's always hard missing the past. But I have also come to see that I have a lot to look forward to and I'm holding on to that for now. I wish happiness to each and every one of you, and may we all find what we're looking for.
Newja, my name is Noam. I’m a freelance radio journalist doing a piece about the stories people shared on this page. I’m wondering if I could speak to you about your story. I found it pretty moving. You can email me at noamosband@gmail.com Thanks.
If there ever was a musical piece that would play to us as we literally pass from our physical bodies to our spiritual bodies - This is it. I wish that for all.
To me, this evokes images of somehow being able to travel thousands of miles and enter my beautiful but war-torn country of Syria, traversing invincibly through the bullets, shells, rubble, and bodies to reach my childhood home, and the long demolished house of my grandmother, in a world where she is somehow alive again, in a world when I can still smell the beautiful aroma of her jasmine tree and her morning coffee, and hear the wind whistle through her tree-filled backyard in the star-filled night sky. Embarking on this journey through time is impossible except in my dreams, as I keep waking up to the realization that things have changed. They always do... This piece simply but perfectly portrays the mystical realization, through an out-of-body experience, of somehow glancing at your own physical being as well as your surroundings and the whole world, with an almost impossible paradoxical dichotomy of simultaneous attachment and detachment. That beautiful dichotomy state that draws you to observe, through a bird's eye view, the oddly sad irony of our world's randomness, makes you also deeply appreciate the ephemeral nature life as a whole, the briefness of episodes in our lives of that we thought will never end, the transient physical being, and the omnipresence of what is left behind, after we are physically gone... You can be a believer in a supreme being and believe that, after we depart our physical bodies, we will be ultimately souls that will traverse our boundless universe on a trip to the heavens, like a feather that the wind carries far away. You can also be a skeptic and believe that we are but atoms that will someday become part of a tree or otherwise aimlessly travel the deep ends of space on a haphazard quest to a planet far away, where we will be part of a new physical body in an alien world. That dichotomy leads to other dichotomies, those of hope and despair, those of fear and comfort, those begging to know the whys of the complexity of being human and those realizing that being human is simply about living in voluntary and involuntary dichotomies, after all. Amid all the randomness emerges a common theme, that of entropy and the constancy of change. It makes me peacefully cope with the fact that I will likely no longer be able to enjoy those poignant evenings at my family's peaceful summer house, which is now illegally occupied by foreign fighters and their families. It makes me more steadfast in planting my roots and leaving my footprints all over again, in a different place, at a different time, never looking back for fear of crying. Only a genius like Arvo Pärt can take you on this trip through the powerful simplicity of his piano notes. And only a transformative artist can make one piece mean something different to each of us.
you wrote this beautifully. I'm so, so sorry for the war wracked on your beautiful country. I hope and pray for peace in your homeland. but please, if I may, I ask that you write more. let your voice be heard. show the world what's happening in your own eyes. we need voices like yours. this comment you made on this youtube video shows how beautifully you can write. so if you can, write everything. anything and everything. inspire others to do the same. you've inspired me to write, too. take care. stay safe. 💜
"realizing that being human is simply about living in voluntary and involuntary dichotomies, after all. Amid all the randomness emerges a common theme, that of entropy and the constancy of change" You articulated that perfectly... Thank you so much!
My sister died suddenly 2-3 months ago, a brilliant software engineer, she was in her 40s and devoted the last 10 years of her life to charity and the welfare of young and old. She lived alone, crippled and wasted by hereditary disease, yet famed for her big smile, and little time for pity. When I hear this music it brings me peace, as though it raises her blessed spirit further into the upper echelons of the heavens.
+Pulsonar I feel exactly the same way about this piece and my own grief. It brings me peace by allowing me to find myself again, even if it's just for a few minutes. I say this because I know what that kind of loss feels like; I'm genuinely sorry you have to go through this. She sounds like one of those people whom everyone knows instantly when they meet her, that she's the best humanity has to offer. Life gets better. It doesn't ever return to "normal," which is the painful part... but it becomes a new normal. One where life becomes richer and you become stronger than you ever imagined you could be, because eventually you realize somewhere inside yourself, that letting go of the grief isn't letting go of the person. Letting go of the grief is choosing to let our beloved's influence in our life become a part of the lives of other's, and that THAT is what makes life significant. It's what gives suffering its meaning. It's how our beloved becomes eternal. ... ... yeah sorry, I shouldn't comment while listening to this piece. Just wanted to say I get ya.
Pulsonar Thank you, and you are quite welcome! I was genuinely hoping it wouldn't come off as anything but empathetic and sincere. When I re-read it, I'm aware that those were words I needed to hear as well.
I know that this is not related to music, but when I listen to things like this I just want the whole world to be at peace, no wars just respect for each other.
How endearing that one song can touch so many hearts and so deeply. I am dazzled at the beauty of these comments. It's like reading an open book of everyone's soul. I can see you, and I get you.
Sonder - the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own-populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness-an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
Love that one. In a similar vein, there's the German word "sehnsucht", which roughly translates to "blessed longing" or being homesick for a place you've never actually been to and probably just exists in your imagination. It's that wonderful knife to the heart you might occasionally be lucky enough to get when, say, reading a fiction story and it, just for a moment, touches and soothes that deep wound we all carry in our souls.
I've been feeling suicidal for longer than I can remember and I've been able to cope with it, but today I started feeling out of control and I didn't know why or what to do. Usually I just talk to friends like nothing is wrong and I start feeling better, for some reason I couldn't bring myself to do that today. This is one of my favorite pieces and I listen to it when I hurt. Today I put it on and just lied on the floor, listening, and slowly I felt myself being eased out, as if put to sleep by a loving mother. Thank you for giving me peace amidst this mental turmoil and taking me somewhere where I can breathe and gather the ounce of strength I need to hold on. There is no way one can repay for what you've provided for so many people.
Please do not listen to this voice kehv. It is not you. This might not work everytime, but most of the time : Have you ever noticed that you can feel Love simultaneously to this darkness ? Isn`t that a beautiful miracle ? This Love, my friend, is what YOU really are. This is the truth. So everytime this voice sounds convincing, put your Hand on your Heart and just tell it : "I am not you. I AM LOVE. I hear you. But i love life. So i will not do what you want. Instead i will love you. Thank you for coming to me so that i can give you what you are longing for". Continue to feel both without feeding the need to escape this. This will do miracles. Just Love what is everytime you can and when you are not able to; ask that you be filled with Love from whatever you believe in and open up to receive. Love my friend. Just Love. 💛
Hope you are ok and have found inner peace please walk in nature walk in woodland walk by streams hear and feel Mother Earths love for you think about adopting a dog to join you to be with you on these pleasant beautiful walks he or she will become your saviour as is my dog he’s my everything and a blessing of pure love peace is all we want in our hearts and soul I wish you peace in your heart and soul and mind ❤
@@TASIAawful1 Thank you! I am well and have kept busy. Applying myself and keeping in touch with family and friends seems to keep the thoughts at bay or at least quiet enough to go about life all the same. I appreciate your response and will consider getting a companion of my own!
i am 44. a skin head (i shave my head as i am bald) and have a few tattoos to add! the first time i heard this.... i wept........ perfection! sheer beauty!!
I was feeling emotional because today is been 3 years since my grandma's passing. I was watching The good place and then this music started. I started crying like a baby. Man I needed that.
Very spiritual, listening to it opens up a window to your soul and allows you to detach yourself from the outside world for a moment in time. Stay safe Much love to the people of the world from the UK
the best comment page on youtube. everyone is indeed reflecting within in their own personal way and we're all feeling the same beautiful sentiments. This piece is able to magically bring us all together on this page. Just beautiful.
One morning when I was in Tallinn Bus Station cafe at breakfast before going to lectures there came Arvo Pärt. It was a miracle, I do not believe my eyes. I took dogmatics textbooks and asked for an autograph. One of the wonderful days of my life!
I first heard this 2 days after my mother and I left my extremely emotionally and psychologically abusive father. We had finally moved away to a new house, away from him. For the first time in my life I felt free and light, like the child I had never gotten to be. It gave me a feeling of intense melancholy and longing for the father I never had. But it also felt like I was finally putting a horrible chapter of my life behind me. The music seemed to be marking a new beginning, my past fading away. I remember I was moved to tears over how relieved I felt. This music lifted a weight off of me that I didn’t even know was there. This music marked the end of the worst years of my life, and allowed me to start a new one. For that, I am eternally grateful. My 15 year old self thanks you, Mr Part.
I hope you are okay. How is family life now? I also want to leave my abusive family but im unsure a bit how and when. I hope we can confort eachother knowing our struggles are the same Would love to talk, chris. I just turned 18 in June. Hope this doesnt turn you off, lol. Im a very gentle person, well i try to lol. Hope to hear from you, bye chris. peace and love
If you are listening to this, i believe you are a good person. God bless you, and i hope this music will help you as it`s helping me. thanks for the upload...
“you always look like you’re about to cry when you perform this piece” “do i? it’s my favourite piece.” “why?” “because it reminds me of you,,” koutarou
Two weeks ago, my family and I flew home from Germany. After we landed in JFK, it was already very late at night (11 PM, or so), and I was super jet-lagged and exhausted. During our limousine ride home, the chauffeur had 105.9 WQXR (the classical station in the NJ/NY area) playing on his radio. This song came on, and it felt so bittersweet. It felt almost like a farewell song, reminding me how much I will miss being in Germany, but also a "welcome home" song, reminding that I am on my way to my real home in less than an hour, and I will be sleeping in my own bed soon. It felt so relaxing to hear this during that ride. I feel so grateful to know this song now, and I wish to hear it for many more years to come. Coming from the words of a music major myself, as previously stated, this composition really works on so many levels - as a farewell song, as a welcome home song, as a song to remember the good times, a song to watch the snow softly falling, a leitmotif, the possibilities are endless! Thank you, Arvo Pärt, for writing this beautiful composition. Thank you, WQXR for playing it on your station at that time. Thank you, chauffeur, for the ride home, and for tuning your radio to this station. And thank you to my wonderful family, for bringing me on this absolutely wonderful vacation to Europe.
I can only try and put into words how much this piece of music moves me and how beautiful I find the comments section. Like many of you, I come here to reflect on hopeful beauty and to try and understand my grief or sadness. I am in the process of loss and a seemingly overwhelming sense of loneliness which I know, one day, I will be free from. But right now, everything hurts so much. This piece of Arvo's music will always be a loving arm around my shoulder telling me "All things must pass and your heart will smile again". To anyone else who may be feeling lost or lonely, it's only a matter of time before the joy returns. Please keep holding on. Thank you everyone for such beautiful comments and much love to you all and your futures. And thank you Arvo for a wonderful musical gift to the world.
My dear brother you do not need to understand your grief or your pain. Right now it needs acknowledgement and love in order to soften. It does not need understanding or figuring out because it just is. Right now you are in this very dark space and at a certain level where you're not able to comprehend the great power you have. In order to access this great power you need to know the true love of God. The dark forces wish to have God's power but they reject God's love. But what they don't understand is that love is behind that great power. God does not punish or cast vengeance or karma. Only love. This pain can be Feud either as a curse and a hindrance or it can be viewed as a signpost to where you are truly meant to be. That pain can serve as a reminder to get back to your true Origin and where you are from. Right now this pain conserve as something useful and then when you get to a certain level of being healed you will be able to fully Let It Go and realise that it is no longer useful much like a canoe is useful when crossing the river but no longer useful when you get to the other side. If you don't believe in my words thinking you at least be open to the possibility of all this?
This song makes me realize how much I am grateful for everything I have in life. Despite the death of my father and all the emotional hardships I endured, I have so much to be thankful for. Deep below the roaring waves, the calmness of the ocean is infinite.
I was 17-18, when I first heard the music of Arvo Pärt. It was through a girl I loved with my entire heart. Every time I listen to him, I think of her; and this means the world to me.
"In Greek 'nostalgia' literally means, 'the pain from an old wound'. It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. Nostalgia takes you to a place where you ache to go again, a place where you knew you were loved." - Don Draper
I am copying this from you, if you don't mind, just to keep for myself. I left a place recently I can never go back to but I found love and community there that i've never experienced before. thank you for this definition.
The term "nostalgia" comes from the Greek words "nostos" meaning "return home" and "algos" meaning "pain". It was first coined in the late 17th century by a Swiss doctor named Johannes Hofer, who used it to describe the intense homesickness he observed in Swiss mercenaries fighting away from their homeland.
I laid down upon the shore And dreamed a little space I heard the great waves break and roar The sun was on my face My idle hands and fingers brown Played with the pebbles grey The waves came up, the waves went down Most thundering and gay The pebbles, they were smooth and round And warm upon my hands Like little people I had found Sitting among the sands The grains of sand, so shining small Soft through my fingers ran The sun shone down upon it all And so my dream began How all of this had been before How ages far away I lay on some forgotten shore As here I lie today The waves came shining up the sands As here today they shine And in my pre-Pelasgian hands The sand was warm and fine I have forgotten whence I came Or what my home might be Or by what strange and savage name I called that thundering sea I only know the sun shone down As still it shines today And in my fingers long and brown The little pebbles play. Pre-existence-- By Francis Cornford
To say I had a rough childhood would be the understatement of the century, I was bullied, picked on by my peers and found no refuge at home where my elder brothers continued the torment. I carried these things my whole life, it made it hard to love because I did not love myself, forging relationships was nearly impossible because I hated myself because after all those years, I felt I deserved the abuse obviously something was wrong with me or I would not have been treated that way. A few years back this piece entered my life, I still remember sitting on my back deck watching the Wisconsin River flow by early in the morning with the mist ankle high on the fields and just brushing the water and listening to this piece. The way it flowed through me and over me hitting and filling all the empty corners of my Soul was nothing less than magic. I replayed it no less than 5 times and each time was better than the last and more peace flowed into me. This piece of music saved my Soul and has brought me peace after years of internal conflict. I am worthy, I am good, I am part of this world. Thank you, thank you, thank you
My mother passed away in November. I could only listen to classical music as she was a classical pianist- this came on and represented her life and passing for me ❤
I listen to this music in a dark room before going to bed with my eyes closed. I found myself crying. In the past, having loved someone, having been loved by someone, all human emotions are precious, plants, animals, humans, everything in this world is precious and yet fragile. This music will resolve all human emotions.
This reminds me of driving back to Cleveland from Lexington, KY Christmas 2016 after surprising my fiancé and daughters driving down to spend Christmas with them...heard it on the drive home, had to stop to finish listening to it..I also have it in my music rotation for my daily prayers...it takes me to an inner place in my heart , helping me to be grateful, and be humble, show gratitude, be thankful for the countless blessings Ive been given...and at times too much of a hurry to notice...to not only seek forgiveness but to grant it as well...helps steer me to do good things for others, even if they are small...may not be so small to them. I practice medicine and it reminds me to heal not just bodies...but to try to lift up my patients soles...to brighten their day in some small way...this is a very special piece of music, indeed.
This song found me at a time where I was feeling very alone. More alone than I ever had felt before. It kept me company, and when I learned that the title meant “mirror in the mirror” it helped me reflect into that loneliness. I am so grateful for this song.
My beloved human companion sharing this beautiful journey we call Life, I trust this message will find you… As each melodic note falls perfectly on the soul, so too is the pathway of your Destiny. Do not fear the next unknown step. It is Divine. Whether it is courage, forgiveness, trust, faith, or love, move forward and as the song accompanies you, so too will you marvel at the masterpiece of both Melody and Life.
I've struggled with anxiety and panic disorder for 5 years. Last spring, I had to go back to my country because my mother was so sick and didn't have much time to live. My anxiety symptom was the worst ever and very very scared of stucking in the airplanes for about 12 hours, but gotta go. When I got on my seat, I found this music on the airline's audio. I closed my eyes, breathed slowly, and played this music. Helped me calm a lot, I mean.. a lot.. Since then, I've listened to this when I get bad anxiety. I even play this for dogs to relax. It works :)
Imagine a mother holding his baby for the first time and imagine of old man reflecting on beautiful memories while spending his last days. This music is hope for every moment, it reminds me that, despite life’s challenges, there is so much beauty to cherish. Every time I hear it, I find myself thinking that life really isn’t so bad after all. Thank you for sharing this moving piece.
Yesterday at a concert in a church in Sweden they played Arvo Pärts music in a setting with candles all over the church. When Spiegel im Spiegel was playing i looked around and could see people with their eyes closed, someone cried, someone layed down, someone looked up. It made me feel that we were all connected. We are all in need of support and everyone is carrying their unique luggage. It is a beautiful song that really brings a lot of feelings. Simplicity from a master composer who understands that less is more.
Though we are one with God, He allows us our spiritual individuality
“Less is more”
How true.
@@Maranatha14 so true, beautiful Music too
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Wow. Music is truly some of the highest human expression. I don't think we fear what divides us, so much as what connects us.......anyway I'm playing this piece again as I type these words.
I appreciate this will probably not be read by many, and that's okay, it's more for me anyway. I have had a very difficult past few years, especially this year, i have lost relationships, love ones, and jobs. I have spent all year practically iscolated from society in my room wallowing in despair and self pity. I have on a couple of occasions come close to calling it a day with life.
The only thing that has brought be back was the look on my dogs face in those moments of feeling empty and worthless. He looks at me like im the best person on the planet. And it makes me continue on for his sake. In many ways he has been my guardian angel, I don't have much else other than him. This song reminds me of those moments, whilst also giving me a feeling of courage to continue, just as my dog does..
To anyone who feels iscolated and alone, don't give up. There will most certainly be better days to come, and better people in your life. And if maybe you feel too alone to some up the strength, maybe get a dog? Not many things can make you feel as valued as them smiling right at you.. Thanks for reading to those who did, I start my first job in over a year next week, things may work out yet. Much love
Well said. Good luck with your future endeavors and give your dog a hug for me!
I feel you my friend you're not alone, I've been in almost the same situation for the last 4 years of my life, except I don't have a dog yet. Your words made me feel that I'm not alone and there's someone who can relate and understand. Thank you so much.
Hugs for your lovely dog. And I hope you like the new job, and it will be a good start for a fresh life.
I read your comments and feel music and dogs can help us get through the day. Good luck with your new job. Peace
I've never related to anything more in my life. My dog emotionally and even once physically saved my life. Thankyou for sharing. I had a really good cry. Love
You are not alone. I have been in the same place. Don’t despair. There will be brightness and love for you. I promise. Just hold on.
When I feel blue I listen to this and read the comments. It’s like we are all on the same delicate vessel trying to navigate the mysteries of the universe. Thank you.
We are one.
Beautifully said. ❤
Well put my friend
My daughter suffered a massive heart attack when she was two weeks old. She spent 6 weeks in ICU hooked up to machines. The doctors said she would die but she lived, the doctors don't really know why. I played this tune over and over in her room in the ICU. Thank you Arvo Part. Thank you everyone and everything, I love you. Especially those who know what this music does. It is a blessing. Peace.
i hope your baby is doing fine. Wish you all the best
Incredible, amazing. Happy Christmas and joy to you all.
Really very pleased for you.. keep 🙏 love xx
I hope your beautiful baby girl is giving you the flux with trying to keep up with her and all her energy. This piece brings peace and calmness. Blessings and good health to you and your family.😊
I’m really glad to hear that she pulled through. I wonder if she’ll hear this song as an adult and it will move her in a different way, something deep in her subconscious that speaks to her will to survive.
I took care of my Mom for almost 8 years. Hardest thing I ever did. The last few months I discovered this piece. I would turn my Mom on her side and give her her back rub and then do all the range of motion listening to this over and over, telling her what an awesome Mom she was. I knew by this point she never liked herself, but I was gonna let her know over and over how awesome she was. Thank you for making our bag lunches every single day. And anything else I could think of. When she passed the room glowed. Thank you Mom.
goshmargo what a great job you did. Deep respect 😘. And that glow in the room , how beautiful. A virtuel hug from Holland !
Your love for her was so beautiful. The way she bathed and carried you when you were young- so you did the same for her when she was passing. I teared up reading this, especially since there is no bitterness in your description, only tenderness. Bless you and your family.
And the two of you spread that glow into the world for all us. Thank you for being truly human.
Know that she felt loved.
I cried by reading your story. May God bless you with health, love, peace, and amazing life. A hug from Italy.
This song talks to us. It says: ‘ stop. Stop with what you are doing, stop thinking, stand still for a while, and just be. We are not created for endless worry and struggle. Remember who you are. We are born from the stars, not from downtrodden earth. We are the light that shines through us. Don’t you remember? Remember, dear human! ‘ Thank you for reminding us, Arvo.
Thank you!!!
Indeed. I totally agree with you!
I feel like flying yo Heaven while listening to this beautiful piece...🙏🏼🙏🏼♥️
Beautiful!
well, now I'm crying a little. Thank you Dear Heart.
The English translation of this is "Mirror In the Mirror," so, to me, it means to stop and reflect inwardly- on myself. My internal dialog, my thoughts, my feelings. What have I learned about myself today? Where can I improve? What could I have done differently to avoid hurting my friend's feelings? How can I make it up to her? That sort of thing.
My mother passed away this morning. A few weeks ago I became aware again of this beautiful piece of music. goshmargo’s comment helped me to release emotions that were deep inside me as I cared for my mum. Yesterday, as she slept her final sleep, I listened to it again. I told her once more how much I loved her and how grateful I was for all the love she had given me, beginning with carrying me for those nine months before I was born 56 years ago; taking me to piano lessons, to swimming lessons; always being there for me, etc. The music made me feel that the two of us were in a film together, in scenes from the many wonderful times we had shared. I cried my heart out. Then the music stopped and I was back in the room. Thank you, Arvo Pärt, for this beautiful creation.
This is so beautiful..
You are so beautiful...
@@NachiV Thank you so much, Nachiket.
I know it's a year old but your comment struck me like a thunderbolt. My mum has been ill with dementia for 8 years or so. Reduced to a shell of a person, non verbal, no responses etc. I always think of her when I hear this piece, it always makes me cry. It helps process my emotions, the ones I keep buried away but hearing this is like opening a valve, it's an unconscious action.
I hope you're doing ok, thinking about you and how we cherish our mothers.
@@johnnyutah7010 I'm sorry to hear about your mother. It must be very difficult to deal with her still being here, yet not being here. Although it's been been very difficult losing my mum, there are many things I'm grateful for.
I feel the same as you about this piece and the effect it has on me. I wish you well.
She has left here not left you.
She is with you always
my husband took his own life ten days ago. this beautiful song has brought me the first peace i have felt in a long time.
Good for you Laura. Take care girl ❤
I am so sorry.
@@edwinvv010 what do you mean by good for you🤣😅
@@vaishnavidasika5866 That it brought peace for her 😉
This Estonian compositor is christian, he composing very beautiful music.
My mom used to tell me something written by an ancient mystic : " All shall be well. All shall be well. And all manner of things shall be well." She'd say that when I was too depressed and lonely to see any light - like so many of us here...anyway...she died in 2016. Her last words were, " You must all love each other. You must all love each other."
I miss her so much.
That’s a lovely quotation. I am sorry for your loss. I hope time has smoothed over the raw pain. Some further details about the author of the quotation are here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich
Tina Sotis this made me cry. Thank you for sharing
I'm so very sorry for your loss. I lost my Mom a couple months ago, it's been very lonley without her. I miss her with every breath.
My mom gone 2016 too....i miss her so much, i understand you....
Ολα θα πανε καλα
I feel this piece expresses the universal sadness of the human condition, but does so with such compassion, acceptance and healing.
yes, and without lyrics. such a masterpiece!
wow this song doesn’t make me feel sad at all
@@cryosteam3944 ikr such a thing a karen would say
@@nandocordeiro5853 Not a "Karen" thing at all, she just perceived something differently than you and cryosteam did.
It seems to tell you, "Cry. Let the tears fall, and leave them untouched. It's okay to cry. For from crying comes catharsis, and from catharsis... comes peace."
I listened to this song for the first time at 0:15 am on Jan 1st 2020. I was driving back home at the middle of the night. Music was random on Spotify, and this beauty came up. The city was so peaceful. I drove through a residential area. I saw beautiful Christmas decorations, and cars clustered outside some homes. It was like time has stopped. It felt like that. So slow, so peaceful. I started thinking about how each home, each family, has its own story, its own relationships, traditions, its own pain, and its own love. Then the idea of all of that is going to end at some time came, and I thought life was so pointless, so trivial, yet enormously beautiful. I recommend this sensation to everyone.
5th of Jan 2020
i feel small yet comfortable, like a higher being made all this just to show others what a setting sun looks like on the perfect day.
@@thepsychoticwizard1151 That's a sensation I actually can relate to. This song is pure magical peace.
And then covid...
Reading your comment made me cry.. I felt like I was there with you
Please don't ever delete this on youtube, so I could come back to the comment section to read people's stories. I've been doing this since 2017. It's heartwarming to see that whether the stories are good or bad they always end with hope and love. These stories remind us of our humanity in a world that often feels lost, and a reminder that whatever happens always stay kind. It goes a long way.
It's also nice to know that people discovered this song through 'The Good Place'. I ugly cried when they used this masterpiece for the ending. I never thought it would be featured in a series. This song is also used in the movie 'About Time'. A must watch for everyone, so many life lessons, my husband and I cried like babies during one of the scenes when this song played.
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I work at a coffee shop. We usually play jazz and folk music throughout the day. One day, after I told everyone that we were closing up and that they had to go, I put on this song. Everone shuffled out the door and there was only one woman left. She was cleaning up a stack of papers that she was reading and she told me she would be on her way out. I told her to take her time. As I was counting the till she came up to the counter and asked if she could stay until this song was over. I told her that would be fine. Ten minutes later she came up to the counter, with small tears on her cheeks and said, "Thank you, I needed that." I've always felt a profound attachment to this song. A kind of solace, a place to go to think; just about anything. I still wonder what was going on inside of her listening to this. It seemed important. More important than what goes on inside of me while listening to this, although both are puzzling. I still keep coming back to this song trying to figure out what it's all about.
My wife and I have some discs of Arvo Pärt and we sometimes listen to them while driving. One day we stopped at a church, in front of the sea while this piece was playing. I couldn't stop the car, just stopped the engine but let the music playing. Something was happening. The music, the movement of the waves, the light, the moment, us... everything was connected in this second and whe kept listening to the music, without a word. It's beautiful how none of us had to talk, we just stopped everything at the same moment and stayed silent. It was almost religious. I think it was in some way. Or we can call it an "aesthetic moment".
Jdt Walters perhaps you are feeling what the composer felt, or the sense of the muse that compelled him to write
@Jdt Walters Thank you for sharing this. Your comment was heartwarming in a way I forgot the Internet could be. Thanks.
One of my best friends committed suicide one month ago , this masterpiece music by Arvo Pärt helped me a lot to grief and ease my aching soul.
U a good writer brodan
Just heard this on radio 3. Hugged my autistic son and told him I love him. Now I'm standing, holding my phone, tears rolling down my face. How can a piece of music do that?
Then I read the comments.
Thank you, all of you for sharing in this and your lives.
Oh Sam, thank you from my heart for this beautiful expression of love! This world is a better place because you share this with us.❤
Well, a 27-year old autistic son is sat in the home office of his non-biological father with tears rolling down his face, so I'd suggest a piece of music does that a lot. As someone with autism, (specifically high-functioning Aspergers), this song speaks to us. I've forever had problems playing this, sometimes when things going on around me were so traumatic, so chaotic, so unrelentingly fucking horrible, and this music is so quiet. Right now though I'm listening to it on a hi-spec office computer we use for our business linked to a sound system that could deafen me.
This is undoubtedly the most wholesome comment section I've ever see on RUclips.
That's what I thought as well :)
Boobs.
Absolutely 👍🏼❤️
On the last podcast Michael Schur made a similar comment about something on RUclips. I'm not certain, but I think this is the one.
jayhgoodwin where can i watch this podcast
This comment will probably slip away in the infinity of other comments down here, but hearing this song played live by Arvo laying underneath the piano when I was about 10 years old has to be the best memory I have. Would pay everything I have to go back to that enchanting moment.
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Sounds awesome.
That's awesome mate
Wow 😮😃🤯
Wow! what a treasure to hold
So pure, so soothing. I asked for this to be played at my funeral. It is my soul.
Thank all of you for your wonderful comments, sharing your souls.
I shall also.
i want to express a personal gratitude for all of the amazing humans that have commented on this lovely piece. The outpouring of compassion, vulnerability, and understanding is truly moving. Thanks you, all.
Same idea, we all share the same Sad emotions
beautiful
Don't forget to thank the only True God, The God of The Bible, He is the One that gave Arvo Pärt his musical talent, may God bless you all.
He is an Orthodox Christian where it is not popular to be so. I love this man like a father.
❤️ Thank you to have expressed what I was thinking
I first heard this song back in 2019. I was sitting in a halfway house in Texas after being let out of prison on parole. Before my release, I was placed in an intensive drug program, where I took on the daunting task of looking at myself and discovering who I really am. After months of anger, loathing, denial and inner struggle, I finally made peace with my darkness. This song showed me that there is still hope, joy and wonder in the world. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with saying goodbye to all you've ever known, emerging from the shell you once were, to just be.
Well done. You should be proud of yourself. And I know one day you can keep the circle of hope alive by sharing your knowledge to someone who needs it on your path.
I'm sending you a lot of love 🙂🤍
Keep yourself strong.. life is a wonderful ride, but is hard to understand sometimes. We all have broken pieces in us, but the light find its way inside our souls through the cracks..
Thank you, this really really helps. A lot of love from me as well.
Thank you for the kind and supportive words everyone! I love each and everyone of you
When my mom died some years ago, the world went completely dark and silent. For the first and last time in my life I couldn't listen to music.
Naturally, it was Arvo Pärt's music that brought me back to the land of the living...
Two years ago on September 11th, on Arvo Pärt's birthday, I pressed through the crowd at his traditional birthday concert in Tallinn, shook his hand and with my heart in my throat, told him my story and thanked him for giving me a lifeline when I needed it the most.
This I will never forget.
His music is healing and making you sad at the same time 😥What a great composer!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful story :)
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What a beautifully poignant story. I hope you are recovering from your loss.
Neither will he
He wrote this just prior to emigrating from Estonia when he was 45 to get away from the Soviets. The house he grew up in had a piano with a damaged middle register so he would play only in the high and low registers, never being able to play simple chords like the ones throughout this piece. It's like he's saying goodbye but it takes him so long to do it. A great man
Wow, thanks, where can I get the source of this ?
Blimey, this was a while ago when i was doing an essay on the piece. I think I was probably drunk, that bit at the top is definitely true, the rest is just rambling tbh
thank you for telling us nonetheless
de_dongle lol so he didn't have a broken piano growing up?
@@SpenserRoger check his wiki, it is true. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvo_Pärt
I listened to this for the first time yesterday. Last Monday my wife had cancer surgery after a few weeks waiting. By myself preparing her evening meal at home I shed my first tears, love is so strong.
When I was young, my mother and I watched the movie Witt together. We cried our eyes out, just shook by the song and message of the movie.
Years later, I played this song for my mother while she was on her deathbed, dying from metastatic breast cancer. I'll always think of her when i hear it.
Where I heard this music too. Emma Thompson. Most moving piece ever.❤
Im sorry for your pain. Really.
This kind of art makes me proud to be an Estonian and walk on the same ground with this genius
Estonia is so beautiful! That would be a reason to be proud.🙋
I am proud to be your swedish neighbour. Wish we could work more together with the Nordic and the Baltic countries. We have the same roots and history.
@@pereinarolsson3928So very true 🫶
When my depression got me so emotionless that i´m not able to cry anymore...I load this video, hear the music and start reading the comments and everything streams out of my soul.
I´m so thankful for Arvo Pärt, this magic piece of music and all the people here sharing their emotions. It´s so soul healing !!!
who the fuck asked bro💀🗿
Everyone in the comments here are beautiful people just struggling together
I hope you get through it :]
...be careful what you attach and where you attach it...or you won't be able to listen to it😉
I'm very glad you can find that healing in this beautiful music. I wish you all the best always.
you are loved❤
The sound of seeing my newly born daughter for the first time.
The weight of new responsibility covering the most beautiful thing in the world.
I'm very late but you deserve it. Congratulations and huge respect for bringing in another beautiful soul who will do great things. Hope it is going well for you. Have fun. Make the most of it.
Also very late, but even so, congratulations, mate. I will never forget holding my son and daughter for the first time. That tiny baby was so much more. It is an awesome task, but being a father is something for which I would not trade the world. My kids have been drifting off to sleep to this many times since.
I remember listening to this while staring out the window of an airplane, at the clouds as it slowly got darker and the day ended. It was the most peaceful moment of my entire life...
itzzhenry, my name is Noam. I’m a freelance radio journalist doing a piece about the stories people shared on this page. I’m wondering if I could speak to you about your story. I found it pretty moving. You can email me at noamosband@gmail.com Thanks.
This comment just made me smile and my eyes tear up a bit. I'm so happy that you experienced this level of peace. Namaste, friend.
The first time I had a panic attack in front of my fiancé (boyfriend at the time), he just held me and turned on this song. I cried as we listened to the whole thing. Now, we’re playing this song as I walk down the aisle. ♡
My daughter has severe anxiety she's only 13 but I'm hoping pieces like this can help her, glad it helped you congratulations on getting married, happy for you x x
Congratulations
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Music is Medicine😍🌹
Interesting a few of my Doctors play Violin and other Instruments
Minh wfgeg
When the sun finally dims let this be the requiem for the earth.
zog zog Beautiful phrasing.
Good one
Ah, but our lovely sun will finish off life on Earth long before. Life on this planet is already over 95% of the way along its timeline. The sun will boil away the oceans within about 300 million years. By the time the sun fades away, this planet will have been dead for billions of years.
Jesus. Twist that knife bro.
Great sentiment
this Moonlight Sonata and Clair Du Lune on repeat and Just drift off into the cosmos
None of this is bad, The wave returns to the ocean where it came from, where it belongs.
Thats why I play it, so I don't have to feel anyything, good or bad.
When I heard this playing during the finale, I knew I was gonna cry
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There, we will meet everyone and all our loved ones, the Existence itself will rejoice and dance while we finally arrive at home and become One!
I will be there soon, my beloved father. Thank you for the honor of being your son...
This is how I found this song. I watched it last night. I’ve heard this song so many times before but never known what it was. It’s so beautiful
I played this piece after my husband passed away. One of my little children came up to me and said, "Mom, this song sounds like Daddy dying." Out of the mouths of babes. RIP, my love.
Stay strong, sending you all my love
I'm so very sorry for your loss. Peace be with you, dear soul.
All my love in this dark period. I hope the pain will go away. You are in my thoughts.
Send you all my love from Spain. Why words seem so stupid sometimes when you need to express something. Stay strong 💪
That is deeply heartbreaking.... I'm so sorry for your loss...
The person who introduced me to Arvo Part passed away 2 years ago, and I still hold the music we shared like treasure.
When flying to Japan last year, I listened to this song many times and thought of all I had gone through to get there. Many years of complete abuse as a child. Growing up in a broken home. Having next to nothing growing up. Having to break into a home I was evicted from to get clothing. Literally being homeless. To working so hard as an adult. Sleeping on a couch through college. And, finally, I had a career that afforded to the opportunity to travel. As I began to descend on the flight, I bawled my eyes out. I had officially made it in life.
I would love to hear more on your story. Life happens to have happy continuations.
@@ivelissecolonperez404 I was kicked out of my home when I was 18 years old. My grandparents were kind enough to let me sleep on their couch. I worked multiple jobs while maintaining an honors GPA in college. When I finished college, I found a job almost immediately making more money than I ever dreamed of making. I took trips around America, and finally decided to go to Japan. It was a great experience. Prior to Covid this year, I would've set foot on Africa and Europe before turning 30 years old.
Life was difficult growing up. My mother and father split when I was 10 years old. My mom dated a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, in the process emptying the bank accounts set up for myself and my 2 siblings. This fellow then stole my Christmas presents when I was 12 years old to buy cigarettes at our local WalMart. I faced severe depression and anger issues for years because of this. There's much much more to this story, but, thankfully God shone his light my way, allowed me to see the righteous path, and helped me to make myself a comfortable life.
Caleb, my name is Noam. I’m a freelance radio journalist doing a piece about the stories people shared on this page. I’m wondering if I could speak to you about your story. I found it pretty moving. You can email me at noamosband@gmail.com Thanks.
@@NoamOsband Noam, I emailed you. Would love to talk! Thanks for reaching out.
Thank you for sharing. I wonder: does going through hardship make us nicer people? It certainly teaches us a lot about valuing life. Open your heart :-)
I’m a nurse, one of those nurses who are there where no one can be holding your hand when you’re fighting against death, against covid. The most difficult thing I’ve done in my entire life. Every unspoken word, every look you give me, every fear you have. i will keep it as the most important treasure someone can receive. This song give me the strength i need to remember every single soul i lost.
“And death shall be no more, death thou shall die” - Jhon Donne
Sacred space for you and all those blessed with your presence in their time of need. Thank you
Thank you for being courageous enough to take on the pain of others, and to embrace the vicarious moments you have with each person. It is what we do best as humans at the deepest core of our being. Help one another. You are incredible
Your are so brave.
Thank you for your kind service to others. I am glad this music found you as have those in your care and their loved ones. God bless you.
Warmhearted greetings, routed in hope and HIS love, who leads us through all this!! Stay blessed!! A collegue hospital nurse from an oncological palliative care in Germany
Deep darkness has fallen on my country, it seems there is no hope for the next sunrise... But this masterpiece helps to be rational, to be ok... Thank you all people who are against war, against murders, against Evil...
The only true hope you have is The Almighty God of The Bible, may He bless you and your country, Amen.
Fight the war in your own way: speak up and speak loud, and use your voice if necessary. Write.
We are with you!
Slava Ukraini
@@jorgeabatocab The only hope he has is to believe in your god? Maybe he's smarter than a sheep.
I just finished The Good Place. It is the first time in a long while that television made me cry. They each found a way to go gentle into that good night. They were waves in the ocean, though faded onto the shoreline, their echoes felt across an endless rippling sea that accepted them in peace and fulfillment.
I ugly cried at that scene when this piece started playing.
I'm here for the same reason. It's so moving.
I know right?
I have to admit, that ending crushed me. Especially when it started off as such a silly comedy, so I let my guard down.
What is “The Good Place?
I've always been fascinated by music's ability to bring people together. Millions of people, all living separate lives and dealing with different circumstances, all coming together and being moved by such a simple yet complex piece of music. I doubt anybody will see this, but if you do, I wish you strength and perseverance for any problems you are facing. I feel a little more human after this, and I'll do my best to never take that for granted.
All coming together, most of us so far apart. And who knows, maybe some of us are neighbours. It's a beautiful thought.
❤️🌏”So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth” -Baha’i Faith
thank you sincerly
Thank you!
Around 2004 I heard this on the local Classical radio station. It was winter, I was depressed. I stood in front of the window watching the snowfall, and listened. This music brought to the surface my grief, my tears, my hopelessness. Yet, it brought peace to my heart. The Human Condition. So beautiful, so poignant. So full of everything. I cried and released so much. Thank you, Arvo.
This is everything...
I am currently listening to this song for the first time while watching a snow storm through my window. Coincidentally today seems to marks the first day in about three months where I've been able to get out of bed and be productive on my own without feeling too bad about it. I've been going through an intense depressive episode that now seems to be giving the first signs of going away finally. This comment section was so pure I felt like sharing something as well. Thank you :)
Lisa, my name is Noam. I’m a freelance radio journalist doing a piece about the stories people shared on this page. I’m wondering if I could speak to you about your story. I found it pretty moving. You can email me at noamosband@gmail.com Thanks.
The first time I ever laid eyes on my wife, she was dancing to this song in college. Five years later we got married as this song played. Arvo Pärt will always be close to my heart, for this piece and his entire body of work. He is one of the finest there ever has been.
Most of us had a rough childhood. Maybe we never got any love from our fathers. We've been dealing with the traumas he's left us all our lives. I've worked so hard, I can't heal myself, my soul hurts so much. I found myself in this piece, crying and resting as I listen. Relaxing...
Just want to say it is within you too heal yourself. Please don't give up.
@@petekay67 Seconded
@@petekay67 The composer is Christian. May you find Christ, the lover of your soul.
I have CPTSD. When Im triggered and am engulfed by intense fear and grief, I always listen to this piece. It helps and calms me. Thank you, Arvo Pärt!
Me too Pavel.
Me too
Me four. Yes, bless us all. Can any of you share any other particular songs that calms you?
Me too. I'm a Viola player and love listening to the Violin part
@@rosalinddavies8466 truth be told
One of those moments where you don't have words to describe your emotions, you just want to cry because of how beautiful something is.
I have never, in 35 years sat still for 10 minutes until I heard this song just now. What beautiful music that was. I’m in awe. Thank you for sharing this magic with the world.
It is a truly beautiful piece of music.
I remember listening to this for the first time with an old friend who is sadly no longer with us.
We both sat silent attempting to hold back the tears.
A moment shared that will last a lifetime.
Fly high Alan and thank you for sharing such wonderful music with me.
Year after year, this commentary section continues to be a beacon in our moments of despair, loneliness and doubt.
Even if we still don't know where we're going next, those few moments here always have the same effect: we understand each other, without even knowing each other.
And I love you all for that.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
The Good Place finale brought me to this masterpiece.. The show is gone now but it left me with another beautiful piece of art. ♥
Indeed!! It did the same for me!!
SAME
I had listened to this piece before watching the Good Place. When I watched the good place and heard this… the feels hit me real good.
It is 1:15 AM, and I’m sitting on my bed in the dark, tears falling down my face having just come here from The Good Place finale. And as I read through these comments, it makes me want to start crying again. Things have been confusing lately, and I’m worried and I don’t know what the future holds for me. But the good place, this song, this very comment section has made me feel so much emotion. It’s stunning, just absolutely beautiful. In some way, this feels like the sound of a life well lived to me, one where you’ve experienced this world, really lived in it, and you’ve taken all those experiences and transformed it into something unique, something fresh, something that’ll help form the lives of many fellow human beings. I want to lead that life, I want to make something worthwhile. Goodnight folks, I love you all so much.
😥🤗
I hope things are less confusing for you now :)
Same here!
That is so eloquently put and I'm listening at nearly the same time of day in a similar situation I hope you have found what you are looking for now
You already have...
This piece of music as sad as it sounds reminds us how fractured life can be for many. The pain and suffering that people endure in their lifetime is truly terrible.😢 Be strong people and i wish you all good will...❤
im listening to this song in my room after having online gradution ceremony of college. i feel so sad because i never have my proper goodbye for my friends and all my expectations are ruined but then i read all the comments and it helped me to feel better than before. in this particular time, i feel peaceful and if i were in the movie maybe right now is my ending scene where i will let go my college days and looking forward to my next obstacles in life. thank you for this beautiful song.
Divia, good wishes to you.
3 yrs passed, have you let go of those beautiful college days? And if I may ask, how you doing these days?
It just goes to show you we humans were never meant to hurt eachother and kill, we dont have claws, the best eyesight and extra legs and arms, we were made to solve this journey together. I hope the world sees this and thinks a bit differently.
Lovely thought, man. (:
+adam kendrick All we can do is to cultivate love, kindness, forgiveness and compassion in our own hearts. It's not for us to change the world or to judge those in it.
+adam kendrick Yet mankind is the only known species with such elaborated methods of killing self and other. People are not kind they sometimes benefit from not being aggressive and hostile.
+Karol “keik” Karpiński I had a mental breakdown after getting into a fight with a kid who had tormented me for over a year, constantly annoying and harrasing me until I lost all friends, found out my best friend was making fun of me behind my back for the last four years, and was falling into depression simply because I was afraid because I was in a position in which I could have seriously hurt someone, even the person I absolutely hated. I live for my friends, without them I have nothing. Humans are also the only ones who have developed such advanced ways of socialization that span the world, the only ones able to create.
That's... incredible and beautiful. I'm screenshotting it and writing it down and sharing it. I'm grateful to have read something like that; we were meant to pass through this world together. Thank you.
One of the most unique pieces of art ever created.
How can a single piece of music makes you question all of your own existence? it’s so beautiful yet cut deep into your soul
I heard this piece for the first time last Sunday. I had had a very hard day dealing with my depression and my friend played it for me. The song made me weep with joy. The piano part was a metaphor for all those who support me in a constant and untiring way. The cello line was myself, searching with curiosity and wonder, safe in the knowledge that I am loved and supported.
I am so grateful for all of you who love this piece too 🙏 ❤
Keep your friend close. Cos together we are stronger.
this could well be one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.
+cal kal I agree. i could say the same for most of arvo's pieces tbh
+Rebecca Burden i did attend a concert of his music at the bridgewater hall in manchester, england, last year. i did spot arvo at the side of the stage. i waved to the master, he smiled and he put his forefinger to his lips, as if to say shush. so i kept his being there to myself. he did come out at at the end of the event to take a bow, bless him :)
that's amazing! i need to keep up to date on performances of his work! i can't believe he was in manchester only last year?!
+cal kal 1 rave: 1/2 for the comment. 1/2 part for the avatar.
Yes true, but will only be heard by those who chose not to be in the herd. Odd cows who stray by the fence line hear, and stay away from the corral - where only bleating is heard.}:=|
this is so calming, the piano seems like little raindrops gently touching the window in a rainy day
I heard this piece for the first time last Sunday. I had had a very hard day dealing with my depression and my friend played it for me. The song made me weep with joy. The piano part was a metaphor for all those who support me in a constant and untiring way. The cello line was myself, searching with curiosity and wonder, safe in the knowledge that I am loved and supported.
I am so grateful for all of you who love this piece too 🙏 ❤
My husband recently passed last month, and this song played in my head when I sat beside him holding his hand telling him that I loved him and thank you so much for all the adventures we went through together. I love and miss him dearly.
Paz y fuerza
As a professional musician who has given pleasure to many people through music but become disenchanted with it and not performed for some time now these comments have restored my faith in what I really need to do and the importance of what I do and inspired me to go out and continue to perform..thankyou everyone...
Everybody has a purpose in life,- and maybe yours is now more important then ever?
@@MsSoulProvider thankyou..just returned to performing after 3 years almost to the day ❤
When you have walked that road for so, so long, beside you ,your parents at first holding your tiny hand, with your brothers and sisters, you had all the energy in the world ,then with your beloved, what warm times and oh! your beautiful children. You saw them grow, you were there for them, the ups and downs, saw them go out into the big scary world but you were so proud of them. They were there for you as you were for them when they lost a grandparent and a mother and you lost a parent and your true love. I can see the end of this road now and it has been so long and I am now so very, very tired. But what a walk it has been. I can see it, the sunlight, it is so very bright, almost blinding, I am not scared though.
Time to sleep!
We're having a great time on the couch right now. Chilling and reading comments of people who share their experiences. Keep em going. From Nedjoua & Frank: two people who met each other against all odds, we both live thousands of miles away from each other and happened to land in the same bar at exactly the right time in a completely foreign country to both of us. We have exactly thirteen days left together and will probably never see each other again. It's all bittersweet, but i would say the sweet part wins. We've made beautiful memories that will go on and that's more than what most people get. 14/06/2019
nejwa B Don’t let go of something like that.
Have you been able to meet again since parting?
So it's been a year since I wrote this comment, and I thought I'd come back here to give some updates, not that I think anyone cares but I just felt like doing it anyway.
Frank and I haven't met again since we parted ways unfortunately, not because we didn't want to but the circumstances are just complicated (visa stuff and whatnot). We tried doing the long distance thing for a while but we both knew it wouldn't work out and surely enough it didn't, we were both heartbroken. But as time passes by I realize more and more that we were simply not meant for each other, which doesn't mean what we had wasn't precious, it was and always will be. But little by little you understand what's best for you isn't always necessarily what you really want. However we still remained good friends.
This past month of June has been particularly hard because I found myself reminiscing a lot about what happened a year ago around this time. It's always hard missing the past. But I have also come to see that I have a lot to look forward to and I'm holding on to that for now.
I wish happiness to each and every one of you, and may we all find what we're looking for.
Newja, my name is Noam. I’m a freelance radio journalist doing a piece about the stories people shared on this page. I’m wondering if I could speak to you about your story. I found it pretty moving. You can email me at noamosband@gmail.com Thanks.
Beautifully put and thanks for giving us an update. I’ve been through something very similar so it was comforting to read.
If there ever was a musical piece that would play to us as we literally pass from our physical bodies to our spiritual bodies - This is it. I wish that for all.
That is exactly what I was thinking.
To me, this evokes images of somehow being able to travel thousands of miles and enter my beautiful but war-torn country of Syria, traversing invincibly through the bullets, shells, rubble, and bodies to reach my childhood home, and the long demolished house of my grandmother, in a world where she is somehow alive again, in a world when I can still smell the beautiful aroma of her jasmine tree and her morning coffee, and hear the wind whistle through her tree-filled backyard in the star-filled night sky. Embarking on this journey through time is impossible except in my dreams, as I keep waking up to the realization that things have changed. They always do...
This piece simply but perfectly portrays the mystical realization, through an out-of-body experience, of somehow glancing at your own physical being as well as your surroundings and the whole world, with an almost impossible paradoxical dichotomy of simultaneous attachment and detachment. That beautiful dichotomy state that draws you to observe, through a bird's eye view, the oddly sad irony of our world's randomness, makes you also deeply appreciate the ephemeral nature life as a whole, the briefness of episodes in our lives of that we thought will never end, the transient physical being, and the omnipresence of what is left behind, after we are physically gone...
You can be a believer in a supreme being and believe that, after we depart our physical bodies, we will be ultimately souls that will traverse our boundless universe on a trip to the heavens, like a feather that the wind carries far away. You can also be a skeptic and believe that we are but atoms that will someday become part of a tree or otherwise aimlessly travel the deep ends of space on a haphazard quest to a planet far away, where we will be part of a new physical body in an alien world.
That dichotomy leads to other dichotomies, those of hope and despair, those of fear and comfort, those begging to know the whys of the complexity of being human and those realizing that being human is simply about living in voluntary and involuntary dichotomies, after all. Amid all the randomness emerges a common theme, that of entropy and the constancy of change. It makes me peacefully cope with the fact that I will likely no longer be able to enjoy those poignant evenings at my family's peaceful summer house, which is now illegally occupied by foreign fighters and their families. It makes me more steadfast in planting my roots and leaving my footprints all over again, in a different place, at a different time, never looking back for fear of crying.
Only a genius like Arvo Pärt can take you on this trip through the powerful simplicity of his piano notes. And only a transformative artist can make one piece mean something different to each of us.
My most heart felt apology for what my country has done to your country, and to you. We share the spirit and the spirituality of this music.
you wrote this beautifully. I'm so, so sorry for the war wracked on your beautiful country. I hope and pray for peace in your homeland. but please, if I may, I ask that you write more. let your voice be heard. show the world what's happening in your own eyes. we need voices like yours. this comment you made on this youtube video shows how beautifully you can write. so if you can, write everything. anything and everything. inspire others to do the same. you've inspired me to write, too. take care. stay safe. 💜
Well written and from your heart! Thank you.! I always think of Jesus and His story in the New Testament listening to this.
"realizing that being human is simply about living in voluntary and involuntary dichotomies, after all. Amid all the randomness emerges a common theme, that of entropy and the constancy of change"
You articulated that perfectly... Thank you so much!
Splendid and heartfully description. Thank you
The wave returning to the ocean. So beautiful. Chidi & Eleanor ❤
My sister died suddenly 2-3 months ago, a brilliant software engineer, she was in her 40s and devoted the last 10 years of her life to charity and the welfare of young and old. She lived alone, crippled and wasted by hereditary disease, yet famed for her big smile, and little time for pity. When I hear this music it brings me peace, as though it raises her blessed spirit further into the upper echelons of the heavens.
+Pulsonar Nothing escapes this Universe. May peace accompany her memory and her spirit.
+Pulsonar I feel exactly the same way about this piece and my own grief. It brings me peace by allowing me to find myself again, even if it's just for a few minutes. I say this because I know what that kind of loss feels like; I'm genuinely sorry you have to go through this. She sounds like one of those people whom everyone knows instantly when they meet her, that she's the best humanity has to offer. Life gets better. It doesn't ever return to "normal," which is the painful part... but it becomes a new normal. One where life becomes richer and you become stronger than you ever imagined you could be, because eventually you realize somewhere inside yourself, that letting go of the grief isn't letting go of the person. Letting go of the grief is choosing to let our beloved's influence in our life become a part of the lives of other's, and that THAT is what makes life significant. It's what gives suffering its meaning. It's how our beloved becomes eternal.
... ... yeah sorry, I shouldn't comment while listening to this piece. Just wanted to say I get ya.
may she rest in beautiful paradise x
+David Evans Your words carry the weight of genuine sincerity and are truly meaningful, thank you.
Pulsonar Thank you, and you are quite welcome! I was genuinely hoping it wouldn't come off as anything but empathetic and sincere. When I re-read it, I'm aware that those were words I needed to hear as well.
I know that this is not related to music, but when I listen to things like this I just want the whole world to be at peace, no wars just respect for each other.
How endearing that one song can touch so many hearts and so deeply. I am dazzled at the beauty of these comments. It's like reading an open book of everyone's soul. I can see you, and I get you.
Sonder - the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own-populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness-an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
This is a perfect picture of what I call 'everydayness'. Here I am an extra in yours, wine glass in hand, cheering you on. I salud you.
Dunbar's number says hello
I sondered once upon a time. It is the single most thing I miss about being young.
Love that one. In a similar vein, there's the German word "sehnsucht", which roughly translates to "blessed longing" or being homesick for a place you've never actually been to and probably just exists in your imagination. It's that wonderful knife to the heart you might occasionally be lucky enough to get when, say, reading a fiction story and it, just for a moment, touches and soothes that deep wound we all carry in our souls.
I've been feeling suicidal for longer than I can remember and I've been able to cope with it, but today I started feeling out of control and I didn't know why or what to do. Usually I just talk to friends like nothing is wrong and I start feeling better, for some reason I couldn't bring myself to do that today. This is one of my favorite pieces and I listen to it when I hurt. Today I put it on and just lied on the floor, listening, and slowly I felt myself being eased out, as if put to sleep by a loving mother. Thank you for giving me peace amidst this mental turmoil and taking me somewhere where I can breathe and gather the ounce of strength I need to hold on. There is no way one can repay for what you've provided for so many people.
Please do not listen to this voice kehv.
It is not you.
This might not work everytime, but most of the time :
Have you ever noticed that you can feel Love simultaneously to this darkness ?
Isn`t that a beautiful miracle ?
This Love, my friend, is what YOU really are.
This is the truth.
So everytime this voice sounds convincing, put your Hand on your Heart and just tell it :
"I am not you. I AM LOVE. I hear you. But i love life. So i will not do what you want. Instead i will love you. Thank you for coming to me so that i can give you what you are longing for".
Continue to feel both without feeding the need to escape this.
This will do miracles.
Just Love what is everytime you can and when you are not able to;
ask that you be filled with Love from whatever you believe in and open up to receive.
Love my friend.
Just Love.
💛
Hope you are ok and have found inner peace please walk in nature walk in woodland walk by streams hear and feel Mother Earths love for you think about adopting a dog to join you to be with you on these pleasant beautiful walks he or she will become your saviour as is my dog he’s my everything and a blessing of pure love peace is all we want in our hearts and soul I wish you peace in your heart and soul and mind ❤
@@TASIAawful1 Thank you! I am well and have kept busy. Applying myself and keeping in touch with family and friends seems to keep the thoughts at bay or at least quiet enough to go about life all the same. I appreciate your response and will consider getting a companion of my own!
When I lose myself, I think about what is good in my life and I start thanking, thanking, thanking. . . until this gratitude fills my soul.
Ten fuerza hermano. Resiste...
요동치던마음에 평안을주는음악입니다 마음을비우고 다시한번 서로의미움이 혐오가사랑으로 합쳐지는 가정과 세상이되기를 기도합니다~~^^❤❤❤😂😂
The music when you didn't achieve everything you wanted in life but life itself turned out to be the biggest achievement.
I agree.
Beautiful music！
Waouhhhh I ❤ what you wrote ....beautifull....
i am 44. a skin head (i shave my head as i am bald) and have a few tattoos to add! the first time i heard this.... i wept........ perfection! sheer beauty!!
You noticed you can't hide :-) Good for you!
You can have tatts and no hair and whatever you want, but underneath we are all the same..
I was feeling emotional because today is been 3 years since my grandma's passing. I was watching The good place and then this music started. I started crying like a baby. Man I needed that.
Ivan Q. Much love to you ❤️
That scene was brutal. ❤
Very spiritual, listening to it opens up a window to your soul and allows you to detach yourself from the outside world for a moment in time. Stay safe Much love to the people of the world from the UK
the best comment page on youtube. everyone is indeed reflecting within in their own personal way and we're all feeling the same beautiful sentiments. This piece is able to magically bring us all together on this page. Just beautiful.
One morning when I was in Tallinn Bus Station cafe at breakfast before going to lectures there came Arvo Pärt. It was a miracle, I do not believe my eyes. I took dogmatics textbooks and asked for an autograph. One of the wonderful days of my life!
i can imagine your happiness. it must have been wonderful!
Fantastic!!!!
Sooooo wonderful 🌺🌹🌷💐
your soul is in safe before that meeting :D
omg! what a story!! :) :)
I first heard this 2 days after my mother and I left my extremely emotionally and psychologically abusive father. We had finally moved away to a new house, away from him. For the first time in my life I felt free and light, like the child I had never gotten to be. It gave me a feeling of intense melancholy and longing for the father I never had. But it also felt like I was finally putting a horrible chapter of my life behind me. The music seemed to be marking a new beginning, my past fading away. I remember I was moved to tears over how relieved I felt. This music lifted a weight off of me that I didn’t even know was there. This music marked the end of the worst years of my life, and allowed me to start a new one. For that, I am eternally grateful. My 15 year old self thanks you, Mr Part.
All the best sweets.
Hope you both have found a better life, you deserve it x.
sincerely hope she & u ll get a great peace !!!
I hope you are okay. How is family life now?
I also want to leave my abusive family but im unsure a bit how and when.
I hope we can confort eachother knowing our struggles are the same
Would love to talk, chris. I just turned 18 in June. Hope this doesnt turn you off, lol.
Im a very gentle person, well i try to lol.
Hope to hear from you, bye chris. peace and love
Hannah, your story is moving. Chat if you wish.
It was worth having born to be able to enjoy listening to this incomparable piece of music.
If you are listening to this, i believe you are a good person. God bless you, and i hope this music will help you as it`s helping me. thanks for the upload...
@@KingDomIV how so?
No Human is good.
all people are good, many do something not good sometimes
Kindred Spirits...Thank You.
god bless u and be happy!
“you always look like you’re about to cry when you perform this piece” “do i? it’s my favourite piece.”
“why?”
“because it reminds me of you,,”
koutarou
pufferfishcarrot ! i’m crying again
bokaka fics stay making me sob
pufferfishcarrot ! Ahhh ahh y
I feel like everyone in here is either mourning a loss, just finished the good place, or is a bokuaka stan
that fic made me sob :'(
Two weeks ago, my family and I flew home from Germany. After we landed in JFK, it was already very late at night (11 PM, or so), and I was super jet-lagged and exhausted. During our limousine ride home, the chauffeur had 105.9 WQXR (the classical station in the NJ/NY area) playing on his radio. This song came on, and it felt so bittersweet. It felt almost like a farewell song, reminding me how much I will miss being in Germany, but also a "welcome home" song, reminding that I am on my way to my real home in less than an hour, and I will be sleeping in my own bed soon. It felt so relaxing to hear this during that ride. I feel so grateful to know this song now, and I wish to hear it for many more years to come. Coming from the words of a music major myself, as previously stated, this composition really works on so many levels - as a farewell song, as a welcome home song, as a song to remember the good times, a song to watch the snow softly falling, a leitmotif, the possibilities are endless!
Thank you, Arvo Pärt, for writing this beautiful composition. Thank you, WQXR for playing it on your station at that time. Thank you, chauffeur, for the ride home, and for tuning your radio to this station. And thank you to my wonderful family, for bringing me on this absolutely wonderful vacation to Europe.
I can only try and put into words how much this piece of music moves me and how beautiful I find the comments section.
Like many of you, I come here to reflect on hopeful beauty and to try and understand my grief or sadness. I am in the process of loss and a seemingly overwhelming sense of loneliness which I know, one day, I will be free from. But right now, everything hurts so much.
This piece of Arvo's music will always be a loving arm around my shoulder telling me "All things must pass and your heart will smile again".
To anyone else who may be feeling lost or lonely, it's only a matter of time before the joy returns. Please keep holding on.
Thank you everyone for such beautiful comments and much love to you all and your futures. And thank you Arvo for a wonderful musical gift to the world.
My dear brother you do not need to understand your grief or your pain. Right now it needs acknowledgement and love in order to soften. It does not need understanding or figuring out because it just is.
Right now you are in this very dark space and at a certain level where you're not able to comprehend the great power you have.
In order to access this great power you need to know the true love of God. The dark forces wish to have God's power but they reject God's love. But what they don't understand is that love is behind that great power. God does not punish or cast vengeance or karma. Only love.
This pain can be Feud either as a curse and a hindrance or it can be viewed as a signpost to where you are truly meant to be. That pain can serve as a reminder to get back to your true Origin and where you are from.
Right now this pain conserve as something useful and then when you get to a certain level of being healed you will be able to fully Let It Go and realise that it is no longer useful much like a canoe is useful when crossing the river but no longer useful when you get to the other side.
If you don't believe in my words thinking you at least be open to the possibility of all this?
This song makes me realize how much I am grateful for everything I have in life. Despite the death of my father and all the emotional hardships I endured, I have so much to be thankful for. Deep below the roaring waves, the calmness of the ocean is infinite.
I was 17-18, when I first heard the music of Arvo Pärt. It was through a girl I loved with my entire heart. Every time I listen to him, I think of her; and this means the world to me.
+Anna Kurtenkova but... youre a woman?
+MLG d4Nk love is love no matter what
Max Simon but... but... that means shes gay?
MLG d4Nk i'm not gay, doesn't mean I loved her less, and still do. The emphasis was on the music, not my sexuality, which is utterly ordinary
+MLG d4Nk Love is not strictly romantic, friend.
This has become our go to bedtime music for our 4 and 2 year old sons. So peaceful and reflective.
I burst into tears listening to this and reading the comments and I dont even know why. I was
overwhelmed.
"In Greek 'nostalgia' literally means, 'the pain from an old wound'.
It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone.
Nostalgia takes you to a place where you ache to go again, a place where you knew you were loved."
- Don Draper
…And somehow, knew you were alive.
I am copying this from you, if you don't mind, just to keep for myself. I left a place recently I can never go back to but I found love and community there that i've never experienced before. thank you for this definition.
The term "nostalgia" comes from the Greek words "nostos" meaning "return home" and "algos" meaning "pain". It was first coined in the late 17th century by a Swiss doctor named Johannes Hofer, who used it to describe the intense homesickness he observed in Swiss mercenaries fighting away from their homeland.
To everyone in the comments: I love you all, everything will be okay ❤️
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wrong
❤️❤️❤️
Everything is....fine.
Take heart people, - 'you cannot direct the wind but you can adjust your sail'. Thank you Arvo.
👍👍
love your quote
your quote brought me to tears.
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I laid down upon the shore
And dreamed a little space
I heard the great waves break and roar
The sun was on my face
My idle hands and fingers brown
Played with the pebbles grey
The waves came up, the waves went down
Most thundering and gay
The pebbles, they were smooth and round
And warm upon my hands
Like little people I had found
Sitting among the sands
The grains of sand, so shining small
Soft through my fingers ran
The sun shone down upon it all
And so my dream began
How all of this had been before
How ages far away
I lay on some forgotten shore
As here I lie today
The waves came shining up the sands
As here today they shine
And in my pre-Pelasgian hands
The sand was warm and fine
I have forgotten whence I came
Or what my home might be
Or by what strange and savage name
I called that thundering sea
I only know the sun shone down
As still it shines today
And in my fingers long and brown
The little pebbles play.
Pre-existence-- By Francis Cornford
I love this so much it feels like transition to me . I played it at my mums funeral and played it all night long while my cat was slowly fading away.
A gentle, thoughtful soundtrack to say goodbye. We all have to go.I hope this is the last thing I ever hear.
I love to come in this section, read the reviews for the 100th time, remember me that there is some beautiful people in the world, and shed a tear.
This song is my moment of silence, and just cry out the frustrations within me.
To say I had a rough childhood would be the understatement of the century, I was bullied, picked on by my peers and found no refuge at home where my elder brothers continued the torment.
I carried these things my whole life, it made it hard to love because I did not love myself, forging relationships was nearly impossible because I hated myself because after all those years, I felt I deserved the abuse obviously something was wrong with me or I would not have been treated that way.
A few years back this piece entered my life, I still remember sitting on my back deck watching the Wisconsin River flow by early in the morning with the mist ankle high on the fields and just brushing the water and listening to this piece. The way it flowed through me and over me hitting and filling all the empty corners of my Soul was nothing less than magic.
I replayed it no less than 5 times and each time was better than the last and more peace flowed into me. This piece of music saved my Soul and has brought me peace after years of internal conflict. I am worthy, I am good, I am part of this world.
Thank you, thank you, thank you
We all matter
I had a whole breakdown from just feeling overwhelmed and this calmed me down a lot.
My mother passed away in November. I could only listen to classical music as she was a classical pianist- this came on and represented her life and passing for me ❤
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I listen to this music in a dark room before going to bed with my eyes closed.
I found myself crying.
In the past, having loved someone, having been loved by someone, all human emotions are precious, plants, animals, humans, everything in this world is precious and yet fragile.
This music will resolve all human emotions.
This reminds me of driving back to Cleveland from Lexington, KY Christmas 2016 after surprising my fiancé and daughters driving down to spend Christmas with them...heard it on the drive home, had to stop to finish listening to it..I also have it in my music rotation for my daily prayers...it takes me to an inner place in my heart , helping me to be grateful, and be humble, show gratitude, be thankful for the countless blessings Ive been given...and at times too much of a hurry to notice...to not only seek forgiveness but to grant it as well...helps steer me to do good things for others, even if they are small...may not be so small to them. I practice medicine and it reminds me to heal not just bodies...but to try to lift up my patients soles...to brighten their day in some small way...this is a very special piece of music, indeed.
This song found me at a time where I was feeling very alone. More alone than I ever had felt before. It kept me company, and when I learned that the title meant “mirror in the mirror” it helped me reflect into that loneliness. I am so grateful for this song.
Here I am again, no longer lonely but still alone. I have learned to like what I see reflected back at me.
My beloved human companion sharing this beautiful journey we call Life, I trust this message will find you… As each melodic note falls perfectly on the soul, so too is the pathway of your Destiny. Do not fear the next unknown step. It is Divine. Whether it is courage, forgiveness, trust, faith, or love, move forward and as the song accompanies you, so too will you marvel at the masterpiece of both Melody and Life.
I've struggled with anxiety and panic disorder for 5 years. Last spring, I had to go back to my country because my mother was so sick and didn't have much time to live. My anxiety symptom was the worst ever and very very scared of stucking in the airplanes for about 12 hours, but gotta go. When I got on my seat, I found this music on the airline's audio. I closed my eyes, breathed slowly, and played this music. Helped me calm a lot, I mean.. a lot.. Since then, I've listened to this when I get bad anxiety. I even play this for dogs to relax. It works :)
Imagine a mother holding his baby for the first time and imagine of old man reflecting on beautiful memories while spending his last days. This music is hope for every moment, it reminds me that, despite life’s challenges, there is so much beauty to cherish. Every time I hear it, I find myself thinking that life really isn’t so bad after all. Thank you for sharing this moving piece.