I know, I know,…too romantic, not philological, not correct, but…
…no other interpretation gives me the same chills. The choir entry at 1.44 is smashing and the o lamm gottes unschuldig choral by children at 3.01 is breathtaking. Pure beauty and passion. No words. Only gratitude and awareness.
Well,… really moving, rhetoric or not.
Keep some kleenex handly 🙂
Some minutes of pure genius with George Carlin…
“You have no choice. You have owners. They own you…. They don’t want people that are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table, and think about how badly they’re getting screwed by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? Obedient workers”
“We have met the enemy and he is us.” – Pogo
Because if you are not the lead dog, the view never changes…
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” – R. Buckminster Fuller
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi
Friend do it this way – that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the Universe.
If you do it that way – that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One – whatever you ask for,
that’s the Way It’s Going To Be.
~ White Buffalo Calf Woman~
“You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. You, who have lost the concept of the difference, you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power—and secretly add that fear is the more “practical”—you do not wish to live, and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned.”
Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”
No wolves this time (it would have been too perfect), but an unbelievable moonrise…
It’s very difficult to resist the temptation to howl at this moon… 🙂
