your life is a mixture of dreams, nightmares, and reality.
don’t waste your life in fear.
get busy living, or get busy dying.
In the end, life is in the details
Start your journey. Say goodbye to regret. Hope and dream and take action, my beautiful friend. Listen to music from your soul and dance and dig and keep climbing all at once. Life is a story. Be your main character, and be your hero.
John Serrie 6:19 Muroc
Water Track 20 5:36 Water
Elevator Beat 2:44 Nancy Wilson
Peter_gabriel__The_Power_of_your_heart
dust in the wind remix
Use Me 3:48 Bill Withers
Just Another 3:14 Pete Yorn
Over My Head 3:38 Fleetwood Mac
Kat_Edmonson Lucky
Tupelo Honey 6:54 Van Morrison
Wild Is the Wind 4:11 Cat Power
Annie Lennox A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Delicate 5:10 Damien Rice
Wise Up 3:22 Aimee Mann
Gutters Full Of Rain 4:23 David Gray
If You Knew (Live) 4:28 Jeff Buckley
I Gave You All 4:20 Mumford & Sons
And a beautiful acapella rendition of Bridge Over Troubled Water by Katie Joy Horwitch. Thank you, sweet K-Joy!
No high heels or hotel parties. No steak or champagne. Just a lot of feeling good in my own skin. Some reflection. Some phone calls with friends and family. Some snuggles with the pups. A lot of looking forward to a new year. A lot of gratitude for the one behind me. More than this, there is love. In my heart, in my past, over my life and in my future. Happy 2013.
Mash up by Faroff – The Beatles vs. Cypress Hill vs. House of Pain
Aretha Franklin Respect Remix (the one where the track is 4.07 minutes long)
Dennis Ferrer – Hey Hey
Icona Pop – I Love It featuring Charli XCX
Madonna – Vogue Hollywood Legends Remix
Neil Young Old Man Sound Remedy Remix
Lenny Kravitz Fly Away Remix (funk soul brotha)
Soulwax You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Circle of Life District 78 Remix
Celebrity Skin – Hole
Fields Of Joy 3:57 Lenny Kravitz
Dance Yrself Clean 8:58 LCD Soundsystem
Over The Hills And Far Away 4:46 Led Zeppelin
Love Song Cover 4:15
Waiting In Vain 5:41 Annie Lennox
Rainsong (Fortune’s Lullaby) 4:45 George Winston
Re: Stacks 6:41 Bon Iver
Never Going Back Again
How To Disappear Completely 5:58 Radiohead
dust in the wind remix
Joe_Mcguinness_I_Will
Must I Paint You A Picture 5:32 Billy Bragg
Reign_of_Love__Coldplay__
Reign of Love – Coldplay
Something Beautiful – Alexi Murdoch
Tupelo Honey – Van Morrison
Rise – Eddie Vedder
Only Us – Peter Gabriel
Flume – Bon Iver
Njosnavelin accoustic live – Sigur Ros
Small Hours – John Martyn
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain
but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield
but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved
but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant that I may not be a coward,
feeling Your mercy in my success alone;
But let me find the the grasp of Your hand in my failure.
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
This changes nothing in the sense and value of my solitude, for it is in fact the function of solitude to make one realize such things with a clarity that would be impossible to anyone completely immersed in the other cares, the other illusions, and all the automatisms of a tightly collective existence. My solitude, however, is not my own, for I see now how much it belongs to them — and that I have a responsibility for it in their regard, not just in my own. It is because I am one with them that I owe it to them to be alone, and when I am alone, they are not “they” but my own self. There are no strangers!
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could all see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time. There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed…I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other. But this cannot be seen, only believed and “understood” by a peculiar gift.
I used to look out, now I look in.
I used to blow smoke, now I breathe in.
I used to walk weakly, now I run and rip the ribbons.
I used to cower among old men, now I hold my chest high in the wind.
Now I see the cowards for what they are – their own little nightmares.
I used to wonder what was my road, now I step down it with wisdom.
I am a little soft baby, I am a curious little girl, I am a piercing teen, I am a screaming young adult, I am a curious start of a woman, I am. I become. I am a poet. I am the same animal I have always been. I am anxious. I am calm. I am power. I am energy. I am everything.
I grieve just like you – I stumble in the same way you do. I will ride this ride, knowing you are riding it too.
It was only one hour ago
It was all so different then
There’s nothing yet has really sunk in
Looks like it always did
This flesh and bone
It’s just the way that you would tied in
Now there’s no-one home
I grieve for you
You leave me
‘so hard to move on
Still loving what’s gone
They say life carries on
Carries on and on and on and on
The news that truly shocks is the empty empty page
While the final rattle rocks it’s empty empty cage
And i can’t handle this
I grieve for you
You leave me
Let it out and move on
Missing what’s gone
They say life carries on
They say life carries on and on and on
Life carries on
In the people i meet
In everyone that’s out on the street
In all the dogs and cats
In the flies and rats
In the rot and the rust
In the ashes and the dust
Life carries on and on and on and on
Life carries on and on and on
It’s just the car that we ride in
A home we reside in
The face that we hide in
The way we are tied in
And life carries on and on and on and on
Life carries on and on and on
Did I dream this belief?
Or did i believe this dream?
Now i can find relief
I grieve
Listen
When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice,
you have not done what I asked.
When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why
I shouldn’t feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings.
When I ask you listen to me and you feel you have to do
something to solve my problems, you have failed me,
strange
as that may seem.
Perhaps that’s why prayer works for some people.
Because
God is mute and He doesn’t offer advice or try to fix things
He just listens and trusts you to work it out for yourself.
So please, just listen and hear me. And if you want to talk,
Wait a few minutes for your turn and I promise I’ll listen to you.
Ahimsa means living in a way that doesn’t harm other living beings. It is the embodiment of the Golden Rule. When we practice ahimsa we respect the preferences of others as much as possible, trusting them to know what is best for them, even if they are young or elderly. We tune in to other creatures that cannot speak and so must let us know what feels good or bad through their behavior.
Although it is impossible to live (and so do good) without doing harm, we seek to minimize any suffering we may cause. In recognizing the preciousness of our own lives, we recognize that the intricate dance of life around us is also precious. Ahimsa is central virtue of the Jain religion, but is can be core to any spiritual or ethical practice.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
In this world of shadows, about what are we quarrelling?
Author Unknown
Everyone has his own parents. No one comes from nowhere.
Author Unknown
Mankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.
| Kindness – Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness, Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
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Dawn 5:12 David Darling Dark Wood
Maelstrom 4:10 Erik Mongrain Equilibrium
Illuminated 3:39 Arto Lindsay Invoke
To Build a Home 6:11 The Cinematic Orchestra Ma Fleur
Lovely Day 4:17 Bill Withers Bill Withers
I May Know The Word 8:09 Natalie Merchant Tigerlily
I Still Care for You 4:07 Ray LaMontagne Gossip In the Grain
Bad 5:28 Luka Bloom Keeper of the Flame
When The Leaves Come Falling Down 5:40 Van Morrison
Dreamsome 4:14 Shelby Lynne
Can I Stay 3:40 Ray LaMontagne
Let’s Stay Together 4:56 Roberta Flack
Song for a Blue Guitar 6:00 Red House Painters
Just Like Heaven 3:34 Katie Melua
Everything’ll Be Alright 2:44 Joshua Radin
Tonight I saw a friend tear up, and another friend of ours stand true by her side. They were just talking about love and change and fear and courage…it came down to this. I am here, through thick and thin.
Wondering about a friends choices, their journey?
Just let them talk, and don’t give advice like you know better. Just see them for their flaws and don’t turn away when they blush. Just let them trip and fall and be there to hold them. Let them cry and play with them in the puddles of their tears. They are ahead of you in some ways and behind you in others that may not seem clear in this moment. Just let loose and let life be the weird little journey that it is. Make sure they know that you see, admire, love and respect them. More than this, look them in the eye when they profess their struggles, and smile cause it’s forever that you get to know them. The friends that are lifelong, they will give it right back when you least expect it. I love my friends. I love them so much.
A Thousand Beautiful Things 3:07 Annie Lennox
All I Need 3:49 Radiohead
Life In Mono 3:48 Mono
Where Is the Love? 4:33
Poe 3:36
Love To Be Loved 5:19 Peter Gabriel
Some Sort of Fairytale tori amos 4:09
We Haven’t Turned Around 6:29 Gomez
Angel Mine 4:00 Cowboy Junkies
Angeles 2:57 Elliott Smith
Track 06 4:26
Northern Sky 3:44 Nick Drake
Either Way 3:07 Wilco
Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters 5:01 Elton John
Forever 3:24 Ben Harper
Sarah Mcglauglin Live 4:12
God’s Wounds
-Mark Nepo
Through the great pain of stretching
beyond all that pain has taught me,
the soft well at the base
has opened, and life
touching me there
has turned me into a flower
that prays for rain. Now
I understand: to blossom
is to pray, to wilt and shed
is to pray, to turn to mulch
is to pray, to stretch in the dark
is to pray, to break surface
after great months of ice
is to pray, and to squeeze love
up the stalky center toward the sky
with only dreams of color
is to pray, and finally to unfold
again as if never before
is to be the prayer.
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