Tag Archives: spontaneous
Be Yourself!
Don’t Worry! Let anxiety pass through you like wind through the trees. Painting by Skip Lee
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Tagged Active Philosophy, anxiety, be yourself, empty, freedom, naturalness, nature, self, Skip Lee, spontaneous, trees, wind, worry, Zen
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Delayed Memory
A strange thing…not being able to remember a word. You rack your brain for a few minutes, and then give up. In the middle of the night you wake up and it hits you. Somehow active thinking creates a passive process … Continue reading
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Tagged acorn, Allen, aphorism, As A Man Thinketh, character, delayed memory, heart, James Allen, memory, oak, perception, recall, seed, spontaneous, thought, tree, Wittgenstein
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Freedom!
On the first day of Woodstock, after a three hour set they weren’t ready for the next performer: Richie Havens takes an old song Motherless Child and ad-libs a new one to create this awesome spontaneous song. This is incredible improvisational power … Continue reading
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Tagged 1969, counter culture, freedom, Music, organic energy, richie havens, song, spontaneous, woodstock
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