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LTMP Episode 8: Yes.

In this episode I discuss my personal journey with the yes’s and no’s of life.

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Podcast Quotes:

  • “….at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something, and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.” Dag Hammarskjold
  • “Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

    An artists is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artists takes it personally.

    Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn’t matter. The intent does.

    Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.”

    Seth Godin

  • You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
  • We eventually know that Someone Else is working through us, in us, for us, and in spite of us. After enlightenment, our life is not our own…..We stop fretting about our smallness. Our yes deeply matters. The word for that yes and that connection is, quite simply, love.  Richard Rohr
  • “Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting.” Martha Beck
  • “Like fireworks, we pull apart the dark.” Sleeping At Last
  • The border between music and noise is always culturally defined
    —which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place;
    in short, there is rarely a consensus …
    By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be. Jean-Jacques Nattiez
  • And, finally, I believe that all these things are true, and that [the] “unanswered question” has an answer. I’m no longer sure what the question is, but I do know the answer — and the answer is, “Yes.” Leonard Berstein
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The Key of See

Really, we just want a better view – a glimpse – and to hold all there is to hold and see all there is to see.

For the Love, please glow.

For the Love, gaze between the lines in the crossfire of empty and wordy.

For the Love, please shine where it’s dark.

For the Love, put your ear to the clouds.

For the Love, please illuminate the space you’ve been entrusted with.

For the Love, lead with your soul.

The Love is shining on the overlooked and hidden so that you may report back and enlighten us to their hidden beauty and whimsy.

See the circle? Love shines. You shine. We see.

When life is lived and lit up at the soul level that is precisely when all heads and hearts nearby turn to participate in music that is unfolding in the key of see.

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Name Changing

When the eyes are new, everything is renewed, refreshed, and recharged.

Paul Valéry once said, “To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.”

What have you been calling yourself?

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LTMP Episode 7: The dots. The lines. The circle.

Click here to download in iTunes LTMP Episode 7: The dots. The lines. The circle.

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This week’s artist overview is My Morning Jacket.  Be sure to purchase their new record, The Waterfall.

The song we look into is called ‘In Its Infancy (The Waterfall)’. Lyrics can be found below.

Again [x10]

The idea was always there, in it’s infancy
The seed took root, over many years
An idea grows before it walks
And as it walks, it learns to run
And as it runs, it feels it’s form
The waterfall, can it be stopped?

Again [x12]

[Chorus x2:]
Again I stop the waterfall by simply thinking
Again I stop the waterfall before my breathing
Again I stop the waterfall by finally feeling
Again I stop the waterfall by just believing

Again [x11]


Benediction…..
May you not juggle the dots you choose in this life.
May you not line them up like dominoes.
May you gather them. Allow them to hold hands.
And may you lead them to the great symphony, the great sound, and the great story you were sent here to share.
May you pause by the orchid. Listen to the bluebird sing. And be love.

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