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AOM TV: POETRY ALOUD - Kahlil Gibran "Love One Another"

 POETRY ALOUD

Kahlil Gibran

"Love One Another"

Read by Dave Luukkonen

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/CqZbHXYd16w

AOM TV: Jesse Elder "Get Over Yourself and Let Love In"

 Jesse Elder

"Get Over Yourself and Let Love In" 

(How to Fully Give & Receive Love in All Your Relationships)

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/s5-R0jebq8I

AOM TV: Aaron Abke "Why Forgiveness if Freedom"

 Aaron Abke

There Is Only Love // Why Forgiveness is Freedom

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/Pp7-rPwLeaQ

AOM TV: Unpositional Love by Aaron Abke

Aaron Abke

Unpositional Love 

(Transcending Points of View) 

// Awakening Vlog 004

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/ItwaETmbwkI

After listening to Aaron

I was reminded of a quote I posted earlier this week

"I do not see the world as it is

I see it as I am" 

~Anais Nin

We all live in two worlds

Quite distinct worlds

There's a world that exists

Whether or not you exist

A world that came into being before you

And will be there when you've gone

A world that pre-existed you

And will exist afterwards

A world of other people, of objects, events, of phenomena

But there's a world that exists only because you exist

A world that came into being when you did

And will end or change when you end

Or change according to your beliefs in these areas

A world of your consciousness

The world that is you 

That place only you know properly

If you do know it properly

But other people cannot really know properly

It's the world in which it was once said

There's only one set of footprints

The world of your private being

And you see the outer world 

that we all share

through this inner world

Anais Nin once put this beautifully

She said,

"I do not see the world as it is

I see it as I am"

And we frame this world 

within our own conceptions, attitudes and belief systems

It's why we all therefore 

do live in often very different worlds

We see the same world very differently

To find our way around is an inner journey

~Sir Ken Robinson

(Finding Your Element)

Radio KAOM: "Love's On The Way" by Sebastian Kole

Love is Calling.

Will You Answer?

Sebastian Kole

"Love's On The Way"

LYRICS:

"Is it just me or is the world going crazy lately?

What's going on?

Can we not see the way were evolving, changing

Something's gone wrong

'Cause every other day it's the same old story

Broken record on repeat.

Another man dies and a child goes hungry while my brothers cry for peace

Here's another war song for the poor

Singing freedom isn't free.

How can my heart not beat for these?

How can my heart not bleed for these?

Love called and asked about us

Said she'd wondered where we'd gone

She's been lonely without us

She wants us to come back home

Don't you miss the way it used to be for you and me?

We won't you please...

Answer her call with me and say

Hey love we're on the way

Oh we've been gone for way too long

Hey love we're on the way

I feel the changes coming on

And if you're ready follow me

We'll be the change we wanna see

Hey love we're on the way

Or is it far too late, and are we too far gone?

Maybe I'm numb to the news of violence

I just send another prayer

Maybe we're used to this or clueless, or is it nobody cares?

'Cause every other day it's another killing and our children have to pay

We act like if we ignore it maybe it'll go away

No, I'm not a superhero I just wanna save the day

I Can't pretend everything's OK

Can't pretend everything's OK

Love called and asked about us

Said she'd wondered where we'd gone

She's been lonely without us

She wants us to come back home

Don't you miss the way it used to be for you and me?

We won't you please...

Answer her call with me and say

Hey love we're on the way

Oh we've been gone for way too long

Hey love we're on the way

I feel the changes coming on

And if you're ready follow me

We'll be the change we wanna see

Hey love we're on the way

Or is it far too late, and are we too far gone?

Oh, So pardon me if I cross the line...

But standing round watching is just a waste of time

World won't change...

No the world won't change till we try, till we try

Hey love we're on the way

Oh we've been gone for way too long

Hey love we're on the way

I feel the changes coming on

And if you're ready follow me

We'll be the change we wanna see

Hey love we're on the way

Or is it far too late, and are we too far gone?"

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/YBQgKCBtOGo

AOM Meditations: 071720

Ein Jahr, ein Tag - (One year, one day), 2016 by Seo

~*~

"What is love? Take a look at a rose. Is it possible for the rose to say, “I shall offer my fragrance to good people and withhold it from bad people?” Or can you imagine a lamp that withholds its rays from a wicked person who seeks to walk in its light? It could only do that by ceasing to be a lamp. And observe how helplessly and indiscriminately a tree gives its shade to everyone, good and bad, young and old, high and low; to animals and humans and every living creature – even to one who seeks to cut it down. So this is the first quality of love; its indiscriminate character. This is why we are exhorted to be like God, “who makes his sun shine on good and bad alike and makes his rain fall on saints and sinners alike; so you must be all goodness as your heavenly Father is all goodness.” Contemplate in astonishment the sheer goodness of the rose, the lamp, and the tree, for there you have an image of what love is all about."

~Anthony de Mello

~*~

“Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.”

~Brené Brown

(The Gifts of Imperfection)

~*~

"Past the seeker as he prayed

came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten.  

And seeing them… he cried,

“Great God,

how is it that a loving creator

can see such things and yet do nothing about them?”  

God said, “I did do something.  

I made you.”  

~Sufi Parable

~*~

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

~Albert Einstein

~*~

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, 

it is the wisdom and time you gave away 

to save another struggling soul like you.”

~Shannon L. Alder

~*~

"We have in us a divine spark that you can see. It's a Light that shines in the human being. It's our direct access to truth, our direct access to God. The purpose of all the spiritual practices that exist are to awaken that spark to give it life, to give it energy, so that it can transform you. One of the energies that comes from that spark is Love."

~Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee 

AOM TV: John Pavlovitz TO THOSE WHO STILL GIVE A DAMN

TO ALL US DAMN GIVERS

Things to do to help you keep going in times of trouble

John Pavlovitz

AN OPEN LETTER 

TO THOSE WHO STILL GIVE A DAMN

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/BfWASyk3fnU

Radio KAOM: "Love Train" performed by Playing For Change

 INSPIRING!!!

Playing For Change

Turnaround Arts

"Love Train"

originally by the O'Jays

Turnaround Arts infuses struggling schools with the arts as a strategy to bolster reform efforts. Turnaround Arts is a national program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that works in 73 schools in 37 districts across 17 states and the District of Columbia.

 

"Love Train" features Turnaround Arts students performing alongside their Turnaround Artists including Alfre Woodard, Bernie Williams, Black Violin, Chad Smith, Dan Zanes and Claudia Eliaza, David Garibaldi, Elizabeth Banks, Frank Gehry, IZ Avila, Jackson Browne, Jacqueline Suskin, Jake Shimabukuro, Jason Mraz, John Cruz, John Lloyd Young, Keb' Mo’, Larisa Martínez, Ledisi, Mic Jordan, Misty Copeland, Ozomatli, Paula Abdul, Paula Fuga, Speech, Taboo, Tim Robbins, Tracy Reese, Trombone Shorty, Valerie June, Yo-Yo Ma, and The O’Jays (who wrote the song).This video was produced by Turnaround Arts and Playing For Change to share the message that the arts have the power to improve our schools and build more compassionate, connected communities. Learn more about Turnaround Arts at http://turnaroundarts.kennedy-center.org and Playing For Change at http://playingforchange.com.

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/aUXSVnGsYyY

Radio KAOM: "LOVE" by John Lennon

 BEAUTIFUL

John Lennon

"Love"

(Official Music Video)

from the album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/7er_xx7Wmg8

AOM Meditations: 121219

by TM Davy

(Lovely example of chiaroscuro)

~*~

LOVE

"To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered close about their lonely, timid, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is – solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves. Love is at first not anything that means merging, giving over, and uniting with another (for what would a union be of something unclarified and unfinished, still subordinate – ?), it is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world for himself for another’s sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things. Only in this sense, as the task of working at themselves (“to hearken and to hammer day and night”), might young people use the love that is given them. Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them (who must save and gather for a long, long time still), is the ultimate, is perhaps that for which human lives as yet scarcely suffice."

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Meditations: DO-GOODERY

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. 

It is to be useful, to be honorable, 

to be compassionate, 

to have it make some difference 

that you have lived and lived well.” 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

~*~

"The way you get meaning into your life 

is to devote yourself to loving others, 

devote yourself to your community around you, 

and devote yourself to creating something 

that gives you purpose and meaning."

~Mitch Albom

~*~

“There is nothing more beautiful 

than someone who goes out of their way 

to make life beautiful for others.” 

~Mandy Hale

~*~

“It's not enough to have lived. 

We should be determined 

to live for something.

May I suggest 

that it be creating joy for others, 

sharing what we have 

for the betterment of personkind, 

bringing hope to the lost 

and love to the lonely.” 

~Leo Buscaglia

~*~

“Lift up your eyes 

and see the good in the world, 

for we are people 

with an amazing capacity 

to do great good. 

And if only the minority 

choose to exercise this capacity 

to the smallest degree, 

oh how wondrous and sweet 

the deeds performed...!” 

~Richelle E. Goodrich

(Slaying Dragons)