As a songwriter, I constantly find myself questioning whether or not what I’ve created is original. Then I remember what one of my favorite film directors, Jim Jarmusch said…
Jarmusch is ascribed as having instigated the American independent film movement with Stranger Than Paradise.[30] Critic Lynn Hirschberg declared Stranger than Paradise in a 2005 profile of the director for The New York Times to have “permanently upended the idea of independent film as an intrinsically inaccessible avant-garde form”.[5] The success of the film accorded the director a certain iconic status within arthouse cinema, as an idiosyncratic and uncompromising auteur exuding the aura of urban cool embodied by downtown Manhattan.[48][49] Such perceptions were compounded with the release of his subsequent features in the late 1980s, establishing him as one of the generation’s most prominent and influential independent filmmakers.[50][51] In a 1989 review of his work, Vincent Canby of The New York Times called Jarmusch “the most adventurous and arresting film maker to surface in the American cinema in this decade”.[32]
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THE GREAT SOUL,
THE VIRTUES
&
LOVE
THE GREAT SOUL
Within every person a great soul lives.
It has been recognized by a thousand names around the world.
It has brought us all the magnificent works of the arts, sciences, and
philosophies known in history.
It is life itself.
Such is the glory of the human spirit.
Deep in the heart of your heart, you find you are this great soul.
We all are.
And yet the world is at war.
Tragedy and pain abound.
Freedom is at risk.
And catastrophe is in the air.
The time is now. We must seize the moment to change the world.
Most all of the suffering and slaughter upon the killing fields of earth, the
millions over the millennia, has been wrought by men possessed by greed, the
illusion of power and enslaved by ignorance. These are the men who never knew
the truth that all men are created equal. The thought of separateness from, and
superiority over, or inferiority under, our fellow human beings; it is this
thought alone, this delusion, has laid the ground for all the horror in our
history.
Now we are playing while the world is dying.
This will become the legacy of humankind unless we come to know the great soul.
There are people to fight, but there are also people to feed. We must reach out
to those who have eyes to see, ears to hear, the minds to know and hearts to
love.
To change the world, to overcome the madness, to achieve peace, we must change
ourselves.
We must discover the great soul.
For this, we look to the virtues. From a practice of Great Virtues comes Infinite Inspiration!