It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
Within your physical atoms the origins of all consciousness still sings.
By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.
Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
You were born into a state of grace. It is impossible for you to leave it. You will die in a state of grace whether or not special words are spoken for you, or water or oil is poured upon your head. You share this blessing with the animals and all other living things. You cannot fall out of grace, nor can it be taken from you. You can ignore it. You can hold beliefs that blind you to its existence. You will still be graced but unable to perceive you own uniqueness and integrity, and blind also to other attributes with which you are automatically gifted.
You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.
You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions. ' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman. ' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home. ' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.
I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.