At the end of the day ….


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WHAT IS LOVE??

Life teaches us many things in as we complete our journey. Love is part of our life.

Sometimes we will find a pure person in our life to love but sometimes fake people come in our life and become a great part to destroy our life. We should be careful in order to find a best person in our life.

Love teaches us many things, we have to learn a message from each and every phase of life. It is also believed that without love life is incomplete.

When you are incomplete you may not able to led a best life.

Source: http://designurge.com/love-quotes/

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“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit and that’s what everyone wants.

But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful.

Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. 

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A soul mate’s purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master …”

~~Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love~~

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“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”

~~Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper~~

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

~~Anaïs Nin~~

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Love is Real by John Lennon W/ Lyrics

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Published on Mar 20, 2012

“Love” is a song written and performed by John Lennon, originally released in 1970 on the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album. The song first came out on Lennon’s 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. “Love” later appeared on the 1982 compilation The John Lennon Collection, and was released as a promotional tie-in single for the collection.

WE ALL are ONE!!

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We ALL are connected by LOVE!!! 

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Don’t Stop Believin by Journey


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Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin’ anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train goin’ anywhere

A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

(Chorus)
Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlights people, living just to find emotion
Hiding, somewhere in the night.

Working hard to get my fill,
Everybody wants a thrill
Payin’ anythingto roll the dice,
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on

(Chorus)

Don’t stop believin
Hold on to the feelin’
Streetlights people

Don’t stop…

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Something to think about ….


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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”

The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.”

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

~~Aristotle~~
 
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“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”

“Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.”

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.”
 
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“… and in her starry shade

Of dim and solitary loveliness,

I learn’d the language of another world.”

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”

“In the depth of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”

~~Albert Camus~~
 
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“Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

~~Rachel Carson~~

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

 
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
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EARTH – One video you NEED to see

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2010

SONG: Two Steps From Hell – Eria

This video was created by David Bayliss*

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Freed Pussy Riot members still want Putin out

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These people experienced the Putin regime ….. what say you!!

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Two members of punk band Pussy Riot say they still want to topple Russian President Vladimir Putin – after they were released from prison.Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina made the comments during a two-hour news conference in Moscow.They also revealed plans to form an organisation, to help Russia’s jail inmates.Al Jazeera’s Peter Sharp reports from Moscow.

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To start the day …..


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Music has always played a very important part in my life.

I was introduced to music in my early childhood when I started taking piano lessons at 8 years of age. I was following in the footsteps of my older brother who was a consummate piano player.

During my young years, I played the organ in church. I earned my extra money playing the organ during wedding ceremonies. 

While in high school, I started playing the guitar. A good friend, at the time, played and we started playing together. This was the time of the protests songs and the folk singing. Ah …. memories!!

That’s when my feelings for music were planted and started growing. They have never stopped. 

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Music can change the world.

It’s the universal language and it evokes feelings of peace, comfort, togetherness and oneness. There is no separation, no differences when we listen to music. We are open to the myriad sensations that come forth from the heart as we listen to this angelic language.

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Music has no boundaries. Music creates no boundaries. When in pain, it’s healing. Music never hurts. It’s a balm that can heal, soften, comfort and unify.

Music can hit you …. but never hurt you!

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Sometimes feelings are so strong that it’s difficult to put them into words. Happiness, sorrow, joy, content, success,

Claiming that music is expressive of emotions and that it can elicit emotions in the listener does not seem highly disputable at first glance. However, this claim gives rise to a number of questions.

  1. How can a piece of music (when we consider purely instrumental music without any vocals, text or title) appear emotional, as a piece of music is no psychological agent?
  2. Why would we respond emotionally to music knowing that there is nobody undergoing the emotion expressed?
  3. What are psychological mechanisms that lead to the emotional reaction in the listener?
  4. What is the nature of these emotions?

The first question deals with how emotions are transported in the music, questions 2-4 with emotions in the listener. (Not mentioned here are emotions in the composer or the performer.) However, perceiving a piece of music as to be emotional and being moved by this emotion mostly go in hand.

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Why does something (that is not a person) appear sad? Because we can identify in its structure certain characteristics that we know from a person’s expression of sadness.

In the same way we would call a piece of music sad because its dynamic character resembles a person’s expression of sadness. “The resemblance that counts most for music’s expressiveness is between music’s temporally unfolding dynamic structure and configurations of human behavior associated with the expression of emotion.” If a person does not give verbal account of his or her feelings, the observer can still note them from the person’s posture, gait, gestures, attitude, and comportment. Music recalls an appearance of sadness e.g., according to Davies, by a slow and quiet downward movement, underlying patterns of unresolved tension, dark timbre, heavy or thick harmonic bass textures.

We don’t find it hard to explain why and how we respond emotionally to something expressing an emotion, e.g. a person expressing joy or sadness (or indirectly to an event like an earthquake that affects people as to express an emotion, which ends up being the same). A stone rarely moves us to tears, so why would music do that? Thus, the core of this problem is the question how music can be expressive at all. The field of aesthetics examine this problem.

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Not everybody associates the same musical features with the same emotion.

Appearance emotionalism does not claim that movement in music generally resembles human behavior but that many listeners have this perception of similarity, and that this is the crucial connection that constitutes the expressiveness of music. This perception of similarity can be widely common among listeners or highly individual.

Which musical features are more commonly associated with certain emotions is left over to the testing of music psychology. Davies claims that expressiveness is an objective property of music and not subjective in the sense of being projected into the music by the listener. Music’s expressiveness is certainly response-dependent, i.e. it is realized in the listener’s judgement. However, suitably skilled listeners display a high degree of agreement in attributing emotional expressiveness to a certain piece of music.

Although this is an empirical finding, it indicates according to Davies (2006) that the expressiveness of music has to be somewhat objective. If there was no expressiveness in the music, no expression could be projected into it as a reaction to the music.

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The expressive qualities of music have been studied for years, the foremost of which has been the expression of emotion. Studies have shown that music is not only emotionally expressive but that there is high agreement among listeners about what type of emotion is being expressed.

Psychologists study how music conveys or elicits emotions using one primary method. Clips of music are chosen based on certain structural features that are known to convey certain emotions. Participants listen to these clips and make judgments about the emotions they elicit or convey either during or directly after the clip. Many differing scales are used; however, a bipolar happy-sad scale is the most common scale given immediately after the clip to adults, and a choice between four emotions is the most common given to children. 

In studies on music that conveys or elicits mixed emotions, bipolar scales are separated so emotions like happiness and sadness are judged independently. When participants are asked to make judgments while listening to the music clips, they press one button for when the music is sad, and another when the music is happy, or both when responses are mixed.

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Different people perceive events differently based upon their individual characteristics. Similarly, the emotions elicited by listening to different types of music seem to be affected by factors such as personality and previous musical training.

People with the personality type of agreeableness have been found to have higher emotional responses to music in general. Stronger sad feelings have also associated with people with personality types of agreeableness and neuroticism. While some studies have shown that musical training can be correlated with music that evoked mixed feelings as well as higher IQ and test of emotional comprehension scores, other studies refute the claim that musical training affects perception of emotion in music. 

It is also worth noting that previous exposure to music can affect later behavioral choices, schoolwork, and social interactions. Therefore, previous music exposure does seem to have an effect on the personality and emotions of a child later in their life, and would subsequently affect their ability to perceive as well as express emotions during exposure to music. Gender, however, has not been shown to lead to a difference in perception of emotions found in music.

Further research into which factors affect an individual’s perception of emotion in music and the ability of the individual to have music-induced emotions are needed.

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Music may not only elicit new emotions, but connect listeners with other emotional sources. Music serves as a powerful cue to recall emotional memories back into awareness. Because music is such a pervasive part of social life, present in weddings, funerals and religious ceremonies, it brings back emotional memories that are often already associated with it.

Music is also processed by the lower, sensory levels of the brain, making it impervious to later memory distortions. Therefore creating a strong connection between emotion and music within memory makes it easier to recall one when prompted by the other.

Music can also tap into empathy, inducing emotions that are assumed to be felt by the performer or composer. Listeners can become sad because they recognize that those emotions must have been felt by the composer, much as the viewer of a play can empathize for the actors.

Listeners may also respond to emotional music through action. Throughout history music was composed to inspire people into specific action – to march, dance, sing or fight. Consequently, heightening the emotions in all these events.

In fact, many people report being unable to sit still when certain rhythms are played, in some cases even engaging in subliminal actions when physical manifestations should be suppressed. Examples of this can be seen in young children’s spontaneous outbursts into motion upon hearing music, or exuberant expressions shown at concerts.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_emotion

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War/No More Trouble | Playing for Change | Song Around The World

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Uploaded on Apr 23, 2009

http://playingforchange.com – As we made our way around the world we encountered love, hate, rich and poor, black and white, and many different religious groups and ideologies. It became very clear that as a human race we need to transcend from the darkness to the light and music is our weapon of the future. This song around the world features musicians who have seen and overcome conflict and hatred with love and perseverance. We don’t need more trouble, what we need is love. The spirit of Bob Marley always lives on.

We ALL are connected through MUSIC!! 

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David Lanz – Variations on a Theme From Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major

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Uploaded on Mar 30, 2009

Song “Variations on a Theme From Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major” arranged and interpreted by David Lanz.

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Christina Perri – A Thousand Years [Official Music Video]

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We ALL are ONE!! 

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