A little 'I am a walrus'.....Lennon's memory eternal, now...
Just think...go back in time...
But, 'It feels like we've been here before,'
something to do with nature, nurture and being.
Maybe, since we do not know anything other than
what we perceive, at least in expressing what we (how many I's are there in me?) might or
may know, -- maybe, we are back in time,
or forward in time. The present is all of these.
'I am he, as you are he, as you are me, as we are all together...I am a walrus...'
..> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yNcE8c3j2M
Then for fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus
And, last of all, in the not yet immortal words, though for some infamous, of Sir Anthony Hopkins, regarding his favorite curse words, 'Fuck it!' What he goes on to say, 'A Monk once told me that this is the shortest prayer, as when you're all done with 'it,' and finally realize that you're able to do anything else, you then say, 'here's have it, it's yours,' again, 'Fuck it.' Personally, I just like this story, right from my own hearing and watching of him responding with these words.
John Lennon was not, nor did he project himself as a perfect model of anything; only that he 'tried' to live in the present, loving and living, knowing peace is never passive and is never given a chance if all we do is to talk or sing about it. 'Imagine,' for John Lennon, at least according to his own words was much more like Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream,' not some sort of innocuous nebulous from esoteric dream states. Love is all there is. Peace can only come about if we give it a chance. My own bigotries and negative and or positive prejudices are only able to be challenged if I allow you to come into my space, intrude upon me and my control. When I know that the notion that I am alone is only an illusion, and that my separateness from others, whether our species or any other, as well as things, - then I am free to be grateful. The only true hell is the one that we live on in our minds, deluded by our own self-importance, living the lie of I am apart from you. In this attempted honesty, this is what I still respect most from John Lennon, that he failed at what he himself thought was best, said so when he was able to admit it, and learned. His sons, his wives, his friends, and those that called him their or even our enemy are still effected by him. On one level perhaps what he 'Imagined' and what Martin Luther King 'Dreamed' has, in some small part, been realized, 'in as much as we love the god we can see, right before us.'
One man's never humble opinion,
timothy
peace is always breathing, and realizing that we do it together -- love,
timothy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg
'We are all water' John Lennon
There may be not much
difference
Between Chairmon Mao and
Richard Nixon
If we strip them naked.
There may be not much
difference
Between Marylin Monroe and
Lenny Bruce
If we check their coffins.
There may be not much
difference
Between White House and and
Hall of People
If we count their windows.
There may be not much
difference
Between Raquel Welch and
Jerry Rubin
If we hear their heartbeat.
We are all water from
different rivers
That's why it's so easy to to meet
We are all water in this vast,
vast ocean
Someday we'll evaporate
together.
There may be not much
difference
Between Eldridge Cleaver and
Queen of England
If we bottle their tears
There may be not much
difference
Between Charles Manson and the Pope
If we press their smile
There may be not much
difference
Between Rockefeller and you
If we hear you sing.
There may be not much
difference
Between Rockefeller and you
If we show our dreams
Just think...go back in time...
But, 'It feels like we've been here before,'
something to do with nature, nurture and being.
Maybe, since we do not know anything other than
what we perceive, at least in expressing what we (how many I's are there in me?) might or
may know, -- maybe, we are back in time,
or forward in time. The present is all of these.
'I am he, as you are he, as you are me, as we are all together...I am a walrus...'
..> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yNcE8c3j2M
Then for fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_the_Walrus
And, last of all, in the not yet immortal words, though for some infamous, of Sir Anthony Hopkins, regarding his favorite curse words, 'Fuck it!' What he goes on to say, 'A Monk once told me that this is the shortest prayer, as when you're all done with 'it,' and finally realize that you're able to do anything else, you then say, 'here's have it, it's yours,' again, 'Fuck it.' Personally, I just like this story, right from my own hearing and watching of him responding with these words.
John Lennon was not, nor did he project himself as a perfect model of anything; only that he 'tried' to live in the present, loving and living, knowing peace is never passive and is never given a chance if all we do is to talk or sing about it. 'Imagine,' for John Lennon, at least according to his own words was much more like Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream,' not some sort of innocuous nebulous from esoteric dream states. Love is all there is. Peace can only come about if we give it a chance. My own bigotries and negative and or positive prejudices are only able to be challenged if I allow you to come into my space, intrude upon me and my control. When I know that the notion that I am alone is only an illusion, and that my separateness from others, whether our species or any other, as well as things, - then I am free to be grateful. The only true hell is the one that we live on in our minds, deluded by our own self-importance, living the lie of I am apart from you. In this attempted honesty, this is what I still respect most from John Lennon, that he failed at what he himself thought was best, said so when he was able to admit it, and learned. His sons, his wives, his friends, and those that called him their or even our enemy are still effected by him. On one level perhaps what he 'Imagined' and what Martin Luther King 'Dreamed' has, in some small part, been realized, 'in as much as we love the god we can see, right before us.'
One man's never humble opinion,
timothy
peace is always breathing, and realizing that we do it together -- love,
timothy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg
'We are all water' John Lennon
There may be not much
difference
Between Chairmon Mao and
Richard Nixon
If we strip them naked.
There may be not much
difference
Between Marylin Monroe and
Lenny Bruce
If we check their coffins.
There may be not much
difference
Between White House and and
Hall of People
If we count their windows.
There may be not much
difference
Between Raquel Welch and
Jerry Rubin
If we hear their heartbeat.
We are all water from
different rivers
That's why it's so easy to to meet
We are all water in this vast,
vast ocean
Someday we'll evaporate
together.
There may be not much
difference
Between Eldridge Cleaver and
Queen of England
If we bottle their tears
There may be not much
difference
Between Charles Manson and the Pope
If we press their smile
There may be not much
difference
Between Rockefeller and you
If we hear you sing.
There may be not much
difference
Between Rockefeller and you
If we show our dreams