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Gems

We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself. He is the great danger. And we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man… far too little. His psyche should be studied – because we are the origin of all coming evil. Carl Gustav Jung

Among the horrors we read about in the media on a daily basis, a little reflection on the response of Spanish passer-by’s upon hearing this unconventional rendering of Beethoven’s eternal master piece.

Music by Johann Strauss immediately inspires to revel and waltz with abandon. The overture to ‘Die Fledermaus’ is one of those everlasting masterpieces one listens to with joy. Now here’s a performance with an unusual conductor, Edward Yudenich, at the time seven years old, yet already conducting like a maestro and with totality!

“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.” ― St. Augustine of Hippo, 354 – 430 AD

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade

Jubilee Celebration song composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Gary Barlow. Latter travelled to many Commonwealth countries to get people to contribute to the song. Listen carefully to the blind aboriginal in the Blue Mountains in Oz. Somehow very sannyasin-like!

In Michael Wende’s film, musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic talk about the perception of time while playing music, that time stops on occasion – the experience of a time vacuum – and one experiences totally the now, felt by everybody present.