All Boundaries are Conventions

All Boundaries are Conventions Scene, from Cloud Atlas (2012)

“I climb the steps of the Scot monument every morning and all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don’t worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now, that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me.”

Do you have chains?

“Those who don’t move don’t notice their chains.” Rosa Luxemburg

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What’s the hardest thing to explain?

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.” – Ayn Rand

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Tony Bobbins’ “Let-Go Clinic”… :-))))))

I’m a big fan of Tony, but this is too funny….:-)))))))

Do you really live?

“You have to die a few times before you can really live.” – Charles Bukowski

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Mediocrity vs Genius

“Mediocrity is self inflicted, genius is self bestowed” – Walter Russell

“Mediocrity is self inflicted, genius is self bestowed”  Walter Russell

Are you in the right direction?

“If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau
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Oh, my country so beautiful and lost!

A real touching moment in Opera history:

At a performance of Nabucco at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, conductor Riccardo Muti made a short speech after “Va pensiero” choir, protesting cuts in Italy’s arts budget, then asked the audience to sing along in support of culture and patriotism.

The true crisis

“Incompetence is the true crisis.” – Albert Einstein

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Full quote (a real must):
“Let’s not pretend that things will change if we keep doing the same things. A crisis can be a real blessing to any person, to any nation. For all crises bring progress. Creativity is born from anguish, just like the day is born form the dark night. It’s in crisis that inventiveness is born, as well as discoveries made and big strategies. He who overcomes crisis, overcomes himself, without getting overcome.
He who blames his failure to a crisis neglects his own talent and is more interested in problems than in solutions. Incompetence is the true crisis. The greatest inconvenience of people and nations is the laziness with which they attempt to find the solutions to their problems. There’s no challenge without a crisis. Without challenges, life becomes a routine, a slow agony. There’s no merit without crisis. It’s in the crisis where we can show the very best in us. Without a crisis, any wind becomes a tender touch. To speak about a crisis is to promote it. Not to speak about it is to exalt conformism. Let us work hard instead. Let us stop, once and for all, the menacing crisis that represents the tragedy of not being willing to overcome it.” – Albert Einstein

Me, younger, playing Bach at organ :-)

Well, me long time ago (1993) in concert, playing the Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major.
Low quality recording (from VHS tape) and incomplete, but a nice souvenir. 🙂

Federico Borsari, http://xoomer.virgilio.it/fborsari/ who was the consolle assistant at the event, made to me yesterday a nice surprise putting online some videos that I didn’t know they existed 🙂

Other videos of the same event here:

Much more here:

https://vimeo.com/album/3143141