“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

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ENYA – How Can I Keep From Singing?

My life goes on in endless song
above earth’s lamentations,
I hear the real, though far-off hymn
that hails a new creation.

Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear it’s music ringing,
It sounds an echo in my soul.
How can I keep from singing?

While though the tempest loudly roars,
I hear the truth, it liveth.
And though the darkness ’round me close,
songs in the night it giveth.

No storm can shake my inmost calm,
while to that rock I’m clinging.
Since love is lord of heaven and earth
how can I keep from singing?

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I know you’ve heard it… but have you LISTENED to it? Really?

I know, I know… you don’t have time… you’re at work… you’ve heard the song a bunch of times… who the heck cares about idealistic, hippie crap, like World Peace? Not like it will make a difference, right?

You never know. Music is magic…

Original Lyrics by John Lennon:

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

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I’m not always happy… not even close. Like most, I have a darker side.

I recently wrote a post called Depression: The Long Dark Road, in which I shared with you that I used to suffer from depression. In reality, I will always suffer from depression, but now I have learned to live with it, to work around it, to be happy in spite of it, and not to give in to it. 

David Cain, from Raptitude, recently wrote a brilliant article about How To Keep Bad Moods From Taking You Over, in which he says, “Remind yourself that your perspective is currently limited, and that your faculties of wisdom are currently impaired or dormant.”
 
This is something I had to learn the hard way.

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