Aretha Franklin, the Blues Brothers and Think

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Aretha Franklin as posted on Youtube by Blues Brothers Music.




Think (think) think (think) think (think)
Think (think) think (think) think (think)

You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
Let's go back, let's go back, let's go way on back when
I didn't even know you, you came to me and too much you wouldn't take
I ain't no psychiatrist, I ain't no doctor with degree
It don't take too much high IQ's to see what you're doing to me

You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
Oh freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, yeah freedom
Freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, ooh freedom
There ain't nothing you could ask I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
I was gonna change, but I'm not, to keep doing things I don't
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free

People walking around everyday, playing games that they can score
And I ain't gonna be the loser my way, ah, be careful you don't lose yours
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
You need me (need me) and I need you (don't you know)
Without eachother there ain't nothing people can do

Oh freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, yeah freedom
Freedom (freedom), freedom (freedom), freedom, ooh freedom
There ain't nothing you could ask I could answer you but I won't (I won't)
I was gonna change, but I'm not, if you're doing things I don't
You better think (think) think about what you're trying to do to me
Yeah, think (think, think), let your mind go, let yourself be free
You need me (need me) and I need you (don't you know)

Without each other there ain't nothing people can do 
Songwriters: ISLEY, RONALD / MAYFIELD, CURTIS / MAYFIELD, CURTIS 

There's Only One Buddha On The Road - Don't Doubt It

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“If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.”

Planting seeds of doubt in another is the validation and outward expression of your own unfulfilled promise to yourself.

Doubt is the producer of unrealized possibilities; the thief of the creators; the blinder of the expressive; the jailhouse keeper of imagination; and the puppeteer who controls thought.

The twin soul of fear is doubt. Who is a master magician capable of disguising itself as a nurturing friend, a caring mother, and the wise sage.

Rudyard Kipling wrote these wise words in his poem If: If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too.

Making the allowance means realizing and recognizing where others are coming from. Gauge that by asking: Is it a place where the greatest and grandest of your gifts are being validated, fined tuned, and uplifted or is it coming from the individual's unrealized pool of potential? Trust yourself and surround yourself with people who are going to be your champions just as you would champion them.

Leaders need to be lead; the rest will follow. Are you the rest or are you the leader?
 
There is only one Buddha on the road, don't doubt it because it is you.
 
But then again, this is just my Opinion.
 
 

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Your Are Brilliant

Ideas to Innovation. 

Thanks to my friend Judy on Facebook for sharing this idea. Whoever the author you are brilliant.

Who would of, could of, or should of thought of something so incredibly ingenious!

Insane? Possibly

Image via WikipediaThey say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

For nearly ten months I have been engaged in a situation where - I was doing the same thing over and over again - expecting a different result.

Insane? Possibily. Especially when one of my most trusted friends told me I was starting to look like a cartoon character.

At first I thought what she said was funny, which in some weird way it was, but then I realized as Brittany Spears would say "oops I did it again!" 

Darn.

Taking a good look at the whole sorted affair made me realize that the problem wasn't anything external. It was all about me. Neurotic I know - but it always gets back to your own truth. My action was inaction and inaction was driving me crazy.

Recently another friend asked me what I was up to - you have that look that you are up to something.

Of course, I was up to something.

I made a decision to release my own dramarama, got down to business, and started doing something different. Taking on a new course of action all the while being acutely aware of the anex of uncertainty and separation but confident enough to know that this was just a decision and things will unfold as they will.

From time to time we all get caught in this behavior pattern. The point is how long do you let it go on?

Life is sometimes not easy ONLY because we make it so hard on ourselves. And, when it gets to the point that things aren't fun anymore - its is time to change it up.

Different results are made when different decisions are made. Make them before your drive yourself insane.

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The Inside Job of Peace

Image via WikipediaToday I read somewhere "Peace an inside job."

September 21st is the UN's World Day of Peace.

The path to peace, for most, is not an easy nor a calm journey. Life can be indeed painful, unfortunately horrific, and when you have a planet filled with billions of people building peace is as complex as each person in it.

Often, when I hear people say they are taking up meditation for the first time so they can relax I silently chuckle and wish them well. Because in the beginning of that process all those little "buggers" you have stored in your personal closet of crap will indeed start falling out!

Fear not, this is a good thing - just not in the beginning is it a peaceful one.

Disharmony has its purpose. We just have to have a kinder attitude towards it. 

Upheaval and pain shows us what we don't like. Thus, giving us the opportunity to invest time, energy, resources, and most importantly action into what we do like.

As humans we have a tendency to keep ourselves stuck in what we don't like.

So the question is I wonder how much better life would become if we spent more of ourselves focusing on what we do like rather than what we don't? (paraphrased from E. Hicks)

While doing some research for the UN's World Peace Day I came across this presentation giving in 1992 by Severn Suzuki to the United Nations.

Personally, I am a lot more optimistic and have a great deal more faith about our world and the people who live it, than what is presented in this Youtube video. But, in all fairness and as much as I don't like it what Ms Suzuki has to say is still relevant twenty years later. And, that makes me wonder how much closer to peace are we now than we were twenty years ago?

Inside the job of peace, what is your path?

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You Are Magnificent

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Making my way to where we play.

Seeing you there I stop and stare.

Busted - not sure how many times.

Crossed over - dunno how many lines.

Lights flash and begin to swing.

See darlin' I don’t want to miss a thing.

What can I say?

You are magnificent.

Reach for a pen, but it won’t write.

Reach for the keyboard, but it won’t type.

Reach for the words, but I can’t breath.

Reach for the top, everything stops.

Your are magnificent.

A twelve year old is all that I see.

Can’t believe I’m lookin at me.

Waited for that perfect sign.

Demanding better all the time.

(Been so many I'm damn near blind.)

Here we are once again.

Sorry, sunshine can’t complain.

What can I say?

You are magnificent.

Reach for a pen, but it won’t write.

Reach for the keyboard, but it won’t type.

Reach for the words, but I can’t breath.

Reach for the top, everything stops.

Your are magnificent.

A silver line is all that binds.

The truth from what is told.

This hand folds.

The game is done - it was fun.

Never intended this to be

Uncomfortable
For You - at all - You see.

'Cause that is just not me.

It is just not me.

What can I say?

You are magnificent.

If by Rudyard Kipling

Image by alex drennan via FlickrIf you can keep your head when all about you,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too.

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!