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Beyoncé - The Beautiful Ones (Glastonbury 2011)

Beyoncé performs The Beautiful Ones at Glastonbury 2011.Watch Beyoncé's 2011 Glastonbury set on demand on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000k...

Beautiful Ones is a song about fiercely expressing romantic , devotional love you have for someone. Beyonce gives full justice to the song, by singing it flawlessly and energetically. 

When I first listened to this song, I soaked it up and felt a longing for someone I could dedicate this kind of fierce devotion and love to. 

But after a few listens, here’s what happened. Whenever I listen to it,

The song first gets me in touch with my own, driven, devotional side. 

Then I’m filled with a powerful feeling of trust that this thing Id devote myself to is so close within my reach, its almost as if its within me. And soon enough I close my eyes and get lost in meditation.  

Meditation is powerfully calm awareness.

Its more powerful than any emotion or thought.

Many more such songs make me feel this way, and I dive into meditation.

The fierce song with aggressive high pitches and a lot drum work effortlessly turns into something as steady as a flowing stream, perfectly whole, in its flawless realization of life. 

I end up feeling like i took a dip in truth. 

Its very humbling. 

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God gave you the answer when he gave you the woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66a_FDzXRNk 

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UTOPIA 

by Bjork

‘Bird species never seen or heard before The first flute carved from the first fauna

Utopia (It's not) Elsewhere Let's purify

You assigned me to protect our lantern To be intentional about the light

Utopia It isn't elsewhere It, it's here

My instinct has been shouting at me for years Saying let's get out of here Huge toxic tumor bulging underneath the ground here Purify, purify, purify, purify toxicity’

Paradise to me is a state of mind and place that never ceases to grow. It’s an everlasting, abundant place of creativity, life and peace. It’s the state of mind that occurs when I’m listening to a meditative piano composition, an unshakable state of mind, intense with peace. 

Paradise is a place where I need no food, or water. I need nothing. 

Bjork gives me a glimpse of such atmospheres so well with her ingenious art.

Its almost as if she gives birth to music itself. She combines so many different kinds of elements of music and sounds in her songs. This particular song, Utopia, not just offers great music and lyrics, but she’s done a spectacular job with the music video too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqbv7cCM5AI

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Why can't we be friends - Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

Why Can't We Be Friends - Written by Thomas Allen (as Sylvester Allen), Harold R. Brown, Morris D. Dickerson (as Morris Dickerson), Lonnie Jordan (as Leroy J...

Why can’t we be friends? (x4)

I see you walking down in Chinatown

I called you but you could not look around

Why can’t we be friends? (x4)

I paid my money to the welfare line

I see you standing in it everytime

Why can’t we be friends? (x4)

The color of your skin don’t matter to me

As long as we can live in harmony!

It’s time to watch this movie again and bawl my eyes out. Movies don’t usually make me cry, i bawled forever watching this one. 

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Pose S03 E03 Clip | 'Can Elektra & Her Mom Find Common Ground?' | Rotten Tomatoes TV

Check out the new Pose Season 3 Episode 3 Clip starring Dominique Jackson! Let us know what you think in the comments below.► Learn more about this show on R...

If you ever feel distant from yourself, watch this ferociously uplifting clip from Pose. 

This show, was heartbreakingly gorgeous. Elektra’s motivating confidence, Blanca’s fierce motherly warmth, Pray Tell’s wit and charming energy, Angel in all of her soft femininity , Papi and Angel’s true love, Papi’s commitment to Angel, every character is glorious. 

The ballroom glamour, the celebration of all body types and talents, everyone’s fierce commitment towards their dreams, the fashion, the love, the heartbreak, the pain, everything was brilliantly perfect!

Not to forget the music!!! 

And the songs featured! Whitney Houston’s “My Love is Your Love” 

Aretha Franklin’s “I Say A Little Prayer”

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cannot stop thinking abt the paris review’s essay series on the history & significance of certain colours, hue’s hue:

Periwinkle, the Color of Poison, Modernism, and Dusk

Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe

Marian Blue, the Color of Angels, Virgins, and Other Untouchable Things

Incarnadine, the Bloody Red of Fashionable Cosmetics and Shakespearean Poetics

Jonquil, the Light Yellow of Early Flowers, Mad Painters, and Dust Bowl–Era Pottery

Scheele’s Green, the Color of Fake Foliage and Death

Lilac, the Color of Half Mourning, Doomed Hotels, and Fashionable Feelings

Hooker’s Green: The Color of Apple Trees and Envy

Blaze Orange, the Color of Fear, Warnings, and the Artificial

Chartreuse, the Color of Elixirs, Flappers, and Alternate Realities

Living Coral, the Brutal Hue of Climate Change and Brand New iPhones

Mustard, the Color of Millennial Candidates, Problematic Lattes, and Aboriginal Paintings

Russet, the Color of Peasants, Fox Fur, and Penance

Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence

(also, tag yourselves, i’m russet)

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My heart, a feverish pomegranate

Miguel Hernández, Your Heart, A Frozen Orange, A Centre (via oiseauperdu)

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The Piano (1993), dir.Jane Campion

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Fasting vs Feeding

I write under this title, not just about feeding oneself with food, but with anything.

It could be your daily habits, it could be taking in sunlight, enjoying a movie, enjoying someone’s company.

We’re mortal, and we definitely cannot not feed ourselves, but there’s a certain peace, you can feel, when you do fast from as many things as possible. 

Check your lifestyle. What are the little things that you think you can’t live without? 

Or what are the bigger things that you think you can’t live without?

Try eliminating as many things as possible, from that list of items, prepare your mind for the worst possible life you might lead. Perhaps you have a cake when you’re having a bad day. Eliminate that. You can still get through. 

I’m not saying that enjoying the pleasures of life is bad. But holding on to them, and suffering if at all they’re not present isn’t good. 

I’m not saying suffering because of something is bad either. But there’s a thin line between if something is worth going through all the suffering or not.

Hold on to the things, that are important in your life’s worst case scenario, and only hold on to things that give back the life you give them.

Cleanse yourself from every tiny item that is unnecessary. 

Fast from as many things as possible, and simply watch your potential grow in multitudes.

Feeding your soul can be a very nice experience. Catering to yourself can be nice. But in the depths of motivation and will to do something, lies emptiness. 

A good kind of emptiness. An emptiness that you can harness a lot of energy from. 

The heavier your soul, the harder it gets to feel light. 

Fast, take to cycles of fasting, at the least. 

Feed your soul with things that are only necessary.

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Jamuna kinaray mora gaon - Prabha Atre

Dr. Prabha Atre - Raag Maanj Khamaaj. Jamuna kinaray mora gaon. This song may have roots in folks songs of Madhya Pardesh. Another video on youtube has Pandi...

I listened to this song for an entire sixteen minutes. This is music that lifts you up from the world, and breaks all unhealthy ties, only if you are open to it. 

This is music that makes you want to simply sit and listen, the weight of your emotions, slowly releasing. 

Music like this is unheard of. I was disappointed to see that Tumblr doesn’t have a blog that appreciates Hindustani music. 

It’s not just music that is wonderful about India. In my blog, perhaps soon, I’ll post about more things about India.

India is a struggling country, and its beauty sometimes fades into the background, when it feels like, for its people, that there are more important things to learn and do. 

Humanity should simply not be put through such a fast paced, and stressful lifestyle. 

Atmospheres that induce meditativeness, is of utmost importance right now, to humanity, and the rest of the world.