Tag: inspiration
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Preludes, Book 1, L. 117: X. The Sunken Cathedral | Claude Debussy, Erich Kunzel
Believe that your potentiality is not at its end, That it has no end. Prepare a life towards renewal and hope. Rise up for the trials that still lie ahead. What wonders might you adorn?What shall your life be. . . .
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The Whole of the Moon — The Waterboys
Remember where you are going in this cruel world. “The Whole of the MOON” “I pictured a rainbowyou held in your handsI had flashesbut you saw the planI wondered out in the world for yearswhile you just stayed in your roomI saw the crescentyou saw the whole of the moon!The whole of the moon! You…
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Preparing Black Youth in the 1960s: Education and Class Issues
This documentary from 1968 in Brooklyn highlights the controversial Ocean Hill-Brownsville conflict that focused on community control of schools. It also reveals past problems in the education system decades ago, and the struggles of parenting our Black youth, and inculcating in them the desire and love for learning. In the backdrop, we get young Black…
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Alan Watts: Be Absolutely Willing to Die
A lecture that helped me years ago. Don’t put the question of death off til later. It is the most important thing to consider now. “‘Memento mori.’ ‘Be mindful of death.’ Gurdjieff says in one of his books, that the most important thing for anyone to realize, is that you and all you, every person…
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Alan Watts on Dying and the Ego: How We Define Ourselves
Alan Watts on dying and the ego and the harmony in the chaos of life. “So, I would never invoke spooky knowledge, that is to say that I’ve had a private revelation or that I have sensory vibrations on a plane which you don’t have. Everything is standing right out in the open. It’s just…
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On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) | Mantovani and Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand sings Alan Jay Lerner’s On a Clear Day…
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Why You Can Change the World | The School of Life
You’ll absolutely love “Why You Can Change the World.”
The American Minervan 