"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." (Nietzsche)
It doesnt interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your hearts longing.
It doesnt interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesnt interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by lifes betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.
I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us to
be careful
be realistic
remember the limitations of being human.
It doesnt interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.
I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.
I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,Yes!
It doesnt interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
It doesnt interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the center of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.
It doesnt interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
..."When love is not madness, it is not love"
Music
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde
Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
- E.Y. Harburg
Music is an outburst of the soul.
-Frederick Deluis
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa
it is thru music which angels speak
Movies
Television
has a tendency to get staticky and then leads me to believe that aliens are sending subliminal messages, trying to coerce me to join them in their own lil vendetta against mankind, to buy into their belief that all of humanity sucks and so i try to just avoid the television.
i take all of that back...i DO enjoy the television. survivor, the amazing race, hoarders, intervention, hells kitchen, american idol, and other mindless programs.
Books
Heroes
mother teresa
What I do, you cannot do; but what you do, I cannot do. The needs are great, and none of us, including me, ever does great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.
-Mother Theresa
St. Theresa's Prayer:
May today there be peace within.
May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are
meant to be.
May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love
that has been given to you.
May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
Let his presence settle into our bones, and allow your soul the freedom
to sing, dance, praise and love.
It is there for each and every one of you.
boo radley...
if for no other reason for the simple fact that he was so misunderstood
and whoever wrote this:
I am a thief who smiles and invents words to sing with animals.
I wear the hat of a thief and my wings are invisible.
I am your guardian angel, your most secret lie.
I conjure up whistles and tears for your children.
Trust me.
“In my opinion, the best thing you can do is to find a person who loves you for exactly who you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think that the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with.” -Juno.
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
I JUST spoke with you a couple of hours ago, WTF are you wearin'on yer face!!!!???? I SEE THAT IT IS PURPLE!!!!!! IS IT BECAUSE I ADDED the song "START WEARING PURPLE" to MY PLAYLIST!!!???? Listen....I LOVE YA, IF you are in NEED of SERIOUS counseling,as you KNOW , I have been a CLINICAL COUNSELOR for the MENTALLY ILL for the past 29 years!!!! CALL ME AGAIN!!!! WOW,WOW,WOW.....WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW were asshole deep in water down here in the south right now hun! well I do hope all is well with you havent heard from ya in a while.. stay in touch..