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Travel like a king, listen to the inner voice. A higher wisdom is at work for you. Conquering the stumbling blocks, come easier when the conqueror is in tune with the infinite. Every ending is a new beginning. Life is an endless unfoldment. Change your mind and you change your relation to time. You can find the answer. The solution lies within the problem. The answer is in every question, dig it? An attitude is all you need to rise and walk away. Inspire yourself, your life is yours. It fits you like your skin. The oak sleeps in the acorn. The giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seed. The bird waits in the egg. God waits for his unfoldment in man. Fly on, children, play on. You gravitate to that which you secretly love most. You meet in life the exact reproduction of your own thoughts. There is no chance, coincidence or accident. In a world ruled by law and divine order you rise as high as your dominant aspiration. You descend to the level of your lowest concept of yourself. Free your mind and your ass will follow. The infinite intelligence within you knows the answers. Its nature is to respond to your thoughts. Be careful of the thought seeds you plant in the garden of your mind. For seeds grow after their kind. Play on, children. Every thought felt as true or allowed to be accepted as true by your conscious mind, take roots in your subconscious, blossoms sooner or later into an act and bears its own fruit. Good thoughts bring forth good fruit. Bullshit thoughts rot your meat. Think right and you can fly. The kingdom of heaven is within. Free your mind and your ass will follow. Play on, children. Sing on, lady.

George Clinton (Funkadelic), Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts, 1974

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funkadelic - good thoughts, bad thoughts (second half/spoken word)

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my tolerance for contemptuous behavior, or any other form of negative energy for that matter, is wearing thin.

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miles davis - i fall in love too easily

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i never want a girl to say i was un-polite to them. i think my mother raised me well enough. to be polite to women.

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eddie hazel - frantic moment

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To discover anything new you must start on your own; you must start on a journey completely denuded, especially of knowledge, because it is very easy, through knowledge & belief, to have experiences; but those experiences are merely the products of self-projection & therefore utterly unreal, false. If you are to discover for yourself what is the new, it is no good carrying the burden of the old ...

Jiddu Krihsnamurti, The Book of Life

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constantly in search of "reality" in a universe where "reality" is relative.

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uuer: bobby “blue” bland - i’ll take care of you

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"You’ll find glory by yourself. Alone. No sex. I fucked the dirt one time and I came in the fucking dirt. That was glorious to me. I was walking up from the porn shop, and I had this ad, this American Apparel ad. And I pulled my pants down and I laid down in the dirt and I fucked the dirt. And I came in the dirt cause the dirt was soft and warm. And that was glorious to me because now I know that If I get desperate enough, I can go out and fuck the dirt."  – Willis Earl Beal, Memphis

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Willis Earl Beal, Memphis

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Article: How Jimi Hendrix's race became his 'invisible legacy'

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Two weeks after closing Woodstock with his reinvention of “The Star Spangled Banner,” Jimi Hendrix decided to offer a free concert for a group he called “my people.” He held a concert for an African-American audience in Harlem, a place he once called home. Hendrix’s homecoming, though, was almost ruined as soon as he stepped onstage. Someone threw a bottle at him that shattered against a speaker; eggs splattered on the stage. Hendrix gamely played on while much of the crowd melted away. “They didn’t like him,” says Charles R. Cross, who recounts the episode in his biography of Hendrix, “Room Full of Mirrors.” “He was jeered. People heckled him.” A new film focusing on a more triumphant period in Hendrix’s life is rekindling interest in the guitar icon. “Jimi: All Is by My Side” shows how Hendrix left New York for London to become a star. Yet no film has explored another twist in Hendrix’s journey: How black and white audiences misunderstood the importance of Hendrix’s race, both to the man and to his music. Hendrix traveled to Harlem because he was trying to connect with blacks who had dismissed him as a musical Uncle Tom: a black man playing white man’s music. Music critics and biographers say Hendrix also was frustrated by legions of white fans who only saw him as a racial stereotype — a hypersexual black man who was high all the time — instead of a serious musician. There are signs today that more fans are starting to appreciate how Hendrix’s race shaped his life and sound. Yet he’s still seen by many as a musical genius who just happened to be black instead of a man whose genius was inseparable from his race, says Jeremy Wells, author of “Blackness Scuzed: Jimi Hendrix’s Invisible Legacy in Heavy Metal.” Wells first noticed this pattern when he examined how white heavy metal musicians and fans described Hendrix. They rarely mentioned his race, or even said that his music transcended race. Wells said he found that odd given Hendrix’s sound was steeped in the blues tradition of black guitarists such as B.B. King and Muddy Waters. “Nobody would say that race doesn’t matter for Muddy Waters,” says Wells, an English professor at Indiana University Southeast. “But there’s a whole industry devoted to saying it doesn’t matter for Hendrix.” Race mattered more to Hendrix than most people realize, critics and biographers say: He was hurt by black radio’s refusal to play his music; he experienced stinging racism during his time as an R&B sideman and star; and some of his most famous songs were profoundly shaped by his experiences as a black man in America. [Read More]

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Miles Davis - Shhh/Peaceful, 1969

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i've steadily become uninterested in what others have to say or decide to share. i feel like i've been using the internet the wrong way (so i should definitely just stop). i don't want to succumb to the trappings of nostalgia, i want to continuously move forward. all of these sentences are unrelated in some sense, but come from the same mono-conversation/on-going thought from today.