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    "When the primal scream entered the sound world of the universe it was the first man-made, artificial addendum.Music is the art of the intonated sense; the sound, the groan, the cry and the song where the aural quintessence of the spiritual world of human beings. The aura that personifies sound is transparent through timbre and tone, envelops and tightens the other side of sound, the space of meanings and feelings. Children's games, adult's games, god's games... You can be an idol or a god among the people, but how to makes sense of the Divine Game? Just remember that this knowledge or awareness is the Truth. Consonance or dissonance, free music, pop music, all is searching and hunting for the Great Harmony. As fullness is born into the emptiness of Universal Truth, Absolute Harmony is born into Silence. This three dimensional illusion we call Life will never be perfect because it is made to be imperfect. It is only a school for feelings and the fantasy, designed to improve the hidden chords of thought. Art exists in order to develop the capacity of human beings to imagine. A hidden knowledge of life exists to serve your capacity to develop. Develop your imagination. It's healthy." - Sainkho Namtchylak
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    "Well, there are two ways to do what you want to do in music and performance. They both have to do with intention.One, you don't have anything to do with it. You're part of a whole you're a fluent vessel for all these things to come through you. And then there's the other one, when you go into meditation with Quest. As opposed to being just a blade of grass waving in the wind, you're a blade of grass looking in a particular focused direction in order for the wind to blow you that way! Or, blades of grass grow toward the sun. So how are we going to draw forward the best that we can, to become manifest? And that's a completely different way to perform. One of my newest references is thinking of current and voltage. Transmitting voltage, you want to understand what the reception level of the current is! Sometimes that happens with energy, people, sounds, references, cliches, bombastics... And sometimes it happens in acoustics. What does it remind you of if you keep letting your voice resonate? So there are all these ways of deciding what's important for the sound environment over time... Over time you feel like you can see into the 5th dimension... Did I say 5th? I meant the 4th... Maybe I meant 5th! Since I'm so used to the 4th. [laughs] That's one of my favorite things, just to be able to visualize the past (where we are) and take us to someplace that exists already and is full of glee." - Pheeroan akLaff
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    https://vimeo.com/178430751?from=outro-embed Basic Human Needs Wouldn't it be neat If the people you meet Had shoes upon their feet And something to eat? And wouldn't it be fine now, If all human kind had shelter? And wouldn't it be grand If we all lent a hand So each one could stand On a free piece of land. And wouldn't it be thrilling If folks stopped their killing And started in tilling the land. Basic human needs, Basic human deeds, Doing what comes naturally. Down in the garden, Where no one is apart, Deep down in the garden, The garden of your heart. And wouldn't it be daring If folks started sharing, Instead of comparing, What each other Was wearing? And wouldn't it be swell If people didn't sell they're mother... Earth. Basic human needs, Basic human deeds, Doing what comes naturally. Down in the garden, Where no one is apart Deep down in the garden The garden of your heart. Not just churches Not just steeples. Jive me peoples Helping peoples
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    "Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word'." - Stan Brakhage
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"Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?"
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"Why use a big word when a diminutive one will do?"
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"The constructive use of riches is better than their possession." - unknown
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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. - George Carlin/D.R. Davenport/Gurney Norman
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Words To Live By acceptance affirmative case antecedent argument argumentation argumentative context argumentative argument from direction argument from function argument from principle argument from quality case categorical arguments complementary reasons conclusion connectives consequent consideration cues deductive diagramming dilemma disjunctive distributed terms emotional appeal end term enumeration evidence evidence case indicator words inductive arguments infer / inference intermediate conclusion linguistic consistency logical sense middle term modus ponens modus tollus necessary condition pluralism poisoning-the-well population premises presumptions proposition of fact proposition of value proposition of policy question begging reason rebuttal refutation repudiation reservation scanning slippery-slope-argument standardizing statement status-quo stipulations sufficient condition support universal affirmative validity values virtue Words are so plentiful, like a... Thanksgiving cornucopia, enjoy some today, xo!
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Well said, sherbear.
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'Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?' - Noël Coward
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"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." – H.D. Thoreau
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Man is like athletes that keep on striving in order to win the race of life.
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Never tired of doing good if you want to sow the priceless trophy.
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and found myself wishing some version of Weir's band would cover it. How's that bricklayin' comin'? How's your engine runnin'? Is that bridge gettin' built? Are your hands gettin' filled? Won't you tell me, my brother? 'Cause there are stars Up above We can start Moving forward --The Head and the Heart, Seattle band
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"You can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant." – Arlo Guthrie
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Well I moved into this room if you could call it that a week ago I never do what I'm supposed to do Hardly even know my name anymore When no one calls it out it kind of vanishes away Jason Isbell -- Alabama Pines
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'You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.' - James Duthie
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"Look... Reality is greater than the sum of it's parts, also a damn site holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And The Scenes Gone By an The Scenes To Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focus simply move a few inches back or forward. And once more...look" (That is pure zen folks. RIP Ken Kesey. Died 2001)
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'The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless.' - Robert Aickman
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"There was self-inflicted turmoil, on the subject, at hand. In a if-then experience... does one relate upon a truth or a lie as a deduction. Still there's always a card in play---until its like the last throw in a pitch game. Still if and still then. What is to be seen is then unchangeable when, if then applies." -SAB
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'We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you're worth, facing the sunshine.' - E. M. Forster
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First there is a mountain.Then there is no mountain. Then there is. - Donovan (mollomed)
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'Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.' - John Betjeman
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"look again at that dot. that's here. that's home. that's us. on it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. the aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. :))))))))))) -carl sagan
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'An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.' - Iain Sinclair
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
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Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once
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Phil Lesh said at the Grateful Dead’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994: "Sometimes you don't merely have to endure. You can prevail."
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'At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if i'm not there I carry on as usual.' - Sir Patrick Moore
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"all who joy would win must share it. happiness was born a twin". -lord byron
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"A Divine Guide urges us as we go." -F. O'Mara Socrates felt he had a Divine Guide; an Oracle to him, for him, uniquely and unparalleled. The Oracle says human wisdom is worth little or nothing. Oh then, to be Divine, now a wish for every star.
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'Well, what was i to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.' - Mark Gatiss
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-----------------------------------(----@--------------------------------------(----@ "The most powerful sex organ is your brain." -F. O'Mara
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"Early in the morning, today, the sun shonemagnificently through the rain-stained window-pane. The light upon my skin must have a small shadow of the rain it passed through to reach me in it. There was a cool in the warmth of it. I am this light now and it is me, like vitamins and the beach." -sherbear
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'Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.' - E. M. Forster
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"Today, I just went outside and let the lightshine right on to my skin. Then I went to shower." -sherbear
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"if we have no peace,it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other". -mother teresa
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'It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.' - Noël Coward