This is a documentary on the musical savant Derek Paravicini. I stumbled upon Derek on 60 minutes and was moved enough to watch this documentary on him. Not only is Derek a beautiful pianist but he is also a beautiful human being that helps teach us, humans, the very foundation of our own emotional makeup. Derek, a mildly autistic musical savant, transcends all boundaries of the human spirit and forces us to examine our own brains and feelings through the avenue of music. It is with the utmost pleasure that I share this documentary with you, and promise-- upon watching-- you will be lifted to your highest with the new found ability to dream .......like you were always capable
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."
The Last Seconds inside the Drake Equation (public)
Current mood: trying
Category: trying Life
Is God something, a theory, a thought, an idea humans have made up as answer for oursleves to feel secure in our tiny bodies, our tiny world (Earth). Nobody has that answer. But whether or not God does exist , at least the idea of it has helped teach us something very valuable about ourselves and ultimately the world -- the power of the mind ----the power of thought,belief, sustained mental energy
Intelligence has taken an incredibly long amount of time to evolve. Why waste it?
Is Love a necessary part of evolution for the survival of an "intelligent" planet? I believe it is. But it is so much more than a necessity for ultimate survival.
We are capable of altering our reality. I believe, as many do, that Quantum Physics somehow holds the truth behind this. We CAN impact, with thought, our physical environment. We CAN create a world of peace. It has taken much man made destruction and pain to figure out that Love and Peace is the ultimate answer to not only survival, but precious well being and happiness in that survival. I really feel that those that have lived in both peace and fear, given the choice, would choose PEACE. And many have lived in both but haven't completely learned or have been oppressed enough to not broadcast what they really want. They haven't completely learned that they can make a difference simply by thinking about love and peace. Broadcast it ..let it radiate from every part of your body, and over time watch as everything changes around you and inside you. Thoughts create action. Thoughts create realities. Take comfort that you helped in the cause of creating a beautiful one--You can become more than you, you can come back to being one with everything. You can become we again. You CAN see the world outside just your eyes.
Come back to nature with a renewed and updated form of consciousness and reclaim our home, the only one we've ever known --Earth
"From Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, there came a great unifying life force that flowed in and through all things-- the flowers of the plains, blowing winds, rocks,trees, birds, animals -- and was the same force that had been breathed into the first man. Thus all things were kindred, and were brought together by the same Great Mystery.
Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. And so close did some of the Lakotas come to their freathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue.
The animals had rights-- the right of man's protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to man's indebtedness- and in recognition of these rights the Lakota never enslaved an animal, and spread all life that was not needed for food or clothing.
This concept of life and its relations was humanizing, and gave to the Lakota an abiding love. It filled his being with the joy and mystery of living; it gace him reverence for all life; it made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with equal importance to all.
The Lakota could despise no creature, for all were of one blood, made by the same hand, and filled with the essence of the Great Mystery. In spirit, the Lakota were humble and meek. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"-- this was true for the Lakota, and from the earth they inherited secrets long forgotten. Their religion was sane,natural, and human."
This is an excerpt (pgs 18-20) from a book entitled Native American Wisdom, edited by Kent Nurburn and Louise Mengelkoch . Since I typed it out word for word for my friend Ly, I thought I might as well share it with everyone. I hope you all can take some time this weekend and go outside somewhere where there isnt a lot of noise pollution and just sit, wonder and listen to our beautiful world.
"Sometimes we boys would sit motionless and watch the swallows, tiny ants, or perhaps some smal animal at its work and ponder its industry and ingenuity; or we lay on our backs and looked long at the sky, and when the stars came out made shapes from the various groups. Everything was possessed of personality ,only differing from us in form. Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library and its books were the stones, leaves ,grass, brooks and the birds and animals that shared, alike with us, the storms and blessings of Earth. We learned to do what only the student of nature ever learns, and that was to feel beauty. We never railed at the storms, the furious winds, and the biting frosts and snows. To do so intesnsified human futility, so whatever came we adjusted ourselves, by more effort and energy if necessary, but without complaint. Even the lightning did us no harm, for whenever it came too close, mothers and grandmothers in every tipi put cedar leaves on the coals and their magic kept danger away. Bright days and dark days were bothexpressions of the Great Mystery, and the Indian reveled in being close to the great Holiness.
Observation was certain to have its rewards. Interest, wonder, admiration grew, and the fact was appreciated that life was more than mere human manifestation; it was expressed in a multitude of forms.
This appreciation enriched Lakota existence. Life was vivid and pulsing; nothing was casual and common place. The Indian lived--lived in every sense of the word--from his first to his last breath."
