Canto della Terra

Yes I know

My love, that you and I

Are together briefly
For just a few moments
In silence
As we look out of our windows
And listen
To the sky
And to a world
That's awakening
And the night is already far away
Already, far away

Look at this world
Spinning with us
Even in the dark
Look at this world
Spinning for us
Giving us hope and some
Sun, sun sun

My love, you are you my love
I hear your voice,
And I listen to the sea.
It sounds just like your breathing
And all the love you want to give me
This love
That is there, hidden
Hidden among the waves
All the waves in the world
Just like a boat that....

Look at this world
Spinning with us
Even in the dark
Look at this world
Spinning for us
Giving us hope,
And some sun, sun, sun,
Some sun, sun, sun.

Look at this world
Spinning with us
Giving us some sun,
Mighty sun
Mighty sun
Mighty sun

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Growth...

" Growth, then, demands detachment; and both growth and detachment are difficult to man. Psychologists who think like Fromm will say that it is precisely the refusal to accept the fact of growth that causes complexes, psychological retardations, and neuroses. For human nature shrinks from growth just as the child is reluctant to leave its mother's womb and it's mother's breast, and as the adolescent shrinks from the unknown adult world that rises before him. For psychological growth is a journey into unknown territory, and no one likes to leave the drab Platonic cave where he sits in sad security. Hence, man must muster all his psychological force to overcome each crisis and to avoid slipping back into infantilism."

-William Johnston

Attitudes...


" The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it...."

-Charles R Swindoll

Forgiveness...

"Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past."

Joan Borysenko

What we need...

" At the heart of every constructive action are responsible persons, those who reach out to engage with real life issues where the going may be rough, lay out alternatives (invent some if necessary), asses their relative merits, choose one that accords with virtue and justice - with their own hearts - make the choice knowing they may be wrong and suffer for it, and bear the risk bravely. But at every level from the family to world society we are tragically short of such people. We have plenty of able people who are only critics, plenty who are only experts, and too few responsible people. And we are in this dilemma because not enough of my generation, when they were your age, thought it their duty to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with their own hearts, and too few consciously sought a lifestyle that would prepare them for responsible roles that would make a difference. If they were able, too many settled for being experts and critics. They had the chance to be exceptional, by adding responsibility to good motives and ability, but they settled for the ordinary."

-The Servant Leader

The greatest sin...

" The greatest sin of man is to forget that he is a prince - that he has royal power.
All worlds are in need of exaltation, and everyone is charged to lift what is low,
to unite what is apart, to advance what is left behind.
It is as if all worlds... are full of expectancy, of sacred goals to be reached,
so that consummation can come to pass.
And man is called upon to bring about the climax
slowly but decisively."

-Abraham Joshua Heschel

Entheos...

" Ideals and commitments are thus commonly the expression of entheos, the god within each of us, which accounts for the emergence and governance of our thoughts and actions. Scientifically explained, the god within is the manifestation of the attributes and attitudes we each derive from our hereditary endowment and our experiential past - the biological forces which generates the energy and provide the direction for our lives. This explanation is obviously incomplete, since it does not take free will into account, but at least it points to the mechanisms by which the responses we make to surroundings and events determine the characteristics that makes each one of us unique, unprecedented, and unrepeatable person."

- A God Within, René Dubos