Tom Waits - Strange Weather (Acoustic Demo)

“I am the tiger. I lie in wait for you among leaves Broad as ingots Of wet mineral. The white river grows Beneath the fog. You come. Naked you submerge. I wait. Then in a leap Of fire, blood, teeth, With a claw slash I tear away Your bosom, your hips. I drink your blood, I break Your limbs one by one. And I remain watching For years in the forest Over your bones, your ashes, Motionless, far From hatred and anger, Disarmed in your death, Crossed by lianas, Motionless in the rain, Relentless sentinel Of my murderous love.” — Pablo Neruda

I like you calm, as if you were absent, and you hear me far-off, and my voice does not touch you. It seems that your eyelids have taken to flying: it seems that a kiss has sealed up your mouth. Since all these things are filled with my spirit, you come from things, filled with my spirit. You appear as my soul, as the butterfly’s dreaming, and you appear as Sadness’s word. I like you calm, as if you were distant, you are a moaning, a butterfly’s cooing. You hear me far-off, my voice does not reach you. Let me be calmed, then, calmed by your silence. Let me commune, then, commune with your silence, clear as a light, and pure as a ring. You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true. I like you calm, as if you were absent: distant and saddened, as if you were dead. One word at that moment, a smile, is sufficient. And I thrill, then, I thrill: that it cannot be so.

"Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes." — Paulo Coelho

"Every life has one true love snapshot."

"Children see magic because they look for it."

"any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep." — Clive Barker

"Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is." — Henry Miller

"What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings." — David Foster Wallace

"Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow" — T.S. Eliot

"The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience." — Frank Herbert

"We create our life moment by moment. Only those things that can match our inner vibrational frequency can come into our life."

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Ryan Adams, "Bartering Lines"

Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A Comin - Acoustic

Johnny Cash - The first time ever I saw your face

"I want movement, not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in our quiet life." — Leo Tolstoy

"Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool." — Robert Brault

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion." — Anaïs Nin

"Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin"

"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential." — Bruce Lee

"As Einstein said, God does not play dice with the universe; everything is interconnected and has a meaning. That meaning may remain hidden nearly all the time, but we always know we are close to our true mission on earth when what we are doing is touched with the energy of enthusiasm." — Paulo Coelho

"We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another." — Ram Dass

"We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing." — Ira Glass

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." — Anaïs Nin

Portishead - The Rip

Howlin Wolf -- I'll Be Back Someday

"On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do." — Eckhart Tolle

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." — Warren Buffett

If you believed that thoughts were energy and energy is matter (E=mc2) and matter never disappears, then a person can never truly leave you unless you stop thinking about them. Everything you shared with a person is still there swirling around in the universe.

"She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection." — Mark Twain

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." — Henry Ford

"Love is the energy of life." — Robert Browning

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need." — Sara Teasdale

“Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection” ― Søren Kierkegaard

“It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.” ― Søren Kierkegaard

"Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to." — Alan Wilson Watts

Needle in the Camels Eye by Brian Eno (1974)

Efterklang - Black Summer

PHILIP GUSTON: A Life Lived [excerpt]

Other Lives - Take Us Alive

Sigur Rós - Yfirborð

Sharon Van Etten - Your Love Is Killing Me

Ryan Adams - Shadowlands

"We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves. " — Aldous Huxley

"Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness." — Mary Oliver

"All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step" — Paulo Coelho

"I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder." — Henry David Thoreau

"Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." — Mary Oliver

"I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else." — G.K. Chesterton

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." — Rachel Carson

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." — Aristotle

"A well-trained mind responded to symptoms. An ordinary mind reacted after it happened." — Toba Beta

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends." — Friedrich Nietzsche

"When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you."

“Any time not spent on love is wasted.” ― Torquato Tasso