Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Music and Life. . .

Of music, goals, gurus, life coaches and dance . . . . . a video from a man who used words far better then I ever could. On the list of people I have admired and learned from, place the late, great Alan Watts right at the top.


"Civilized people, whether Western or Eastern need to liberated and de-hypnotized from their systems of symbolism . . . . the so called physical world, and the so called human body are a single process. Differentiated only as the heart from the lungs, or the head from the feet."
- Alan Watts


You can't be a true atheist if you have not read Alan Watts.

"Each entered the forest that he had chosen where there was no path and where it was darkest"

Monday, September 03, 2007

The miracle . . .

The miracle of love

comes to us

in the presence of the uninterpreted moment.


To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy , not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.

In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.

This is to be my symphony.


- William Henry Channing


Follow your Bliss.