Brett Dennen Self-Titled Album
Below are a couple songs from Brett Dennen’s self-titled album. Nice, soulful, fun music. My favorite song on the album is “all we have”, it’s amazing. Check out some of the tunes from the album below.
Limitations Based on Concepts of Reality
I am always somewhat taken aback when I notice a paradigm shift has taken place in my reality. Throughout high school and college my goal was to get the best grades I could with minimal studying and effort applied, with no real intention to learn any material. I figured out how to get above average grades while putting in much less effort than most of my peers. For the life of me I just could not understand why all these other students were working so hard. Then a strange thing happened, after I had been done with school for a bit I developed a fondness of learning. Slowly, more and more topics began to interest me. I liked learning. One day it hit me, school and education had been a gift and opportunity all along.
Change
The only truth in life is change. What is, at some point isn’t. Everything that begins, ends. We are separated from what we hold onto at death or sooner. Nothing is forever. Nothing is permanent. Nothing lasts. All buildings will one day collapse. The human race will perish. Even the sun will die. Life is flow -- sometimes fast -- sometimes slow -- but always moving, changing, moment by moment being what it is meant to be in that one and only ever-present moment. Life is a song, one note seamlessly flowing into the next. There’s no point in holding onto anything -- that would be like trying to make it so that the same note plays again and again -- the change is what makes the sound into music.
“Anger & Sun” Painting
Made this painting about two weeks ago, and I still really like it. The black and red background is supposed to be anger, rage, chaos, disorder, confusion, frusteration. The yellow radiating sun is supposed to be light, hope, truth, resolution shining in the midst of all the negativity. For me, this contrast makes the image a lot of fun to look at.
What is Strength?
Strength is the ability to follow your core intent and purpose with unreactivity. Right action is pursuing what you want in life, while disregarding all the different forms of resistance that arise when you pursue what you desire. Resistance is a test to see if you will stand by what you believe. Resistance is there to see if you really want what you say you want, or whether you’re just bullshitting yourself.
When you attempt to pursue what you desire, your brain will come up with rationalizations as to why this is not what you truly desire, why you do not deserve what you truly desire, and why taking action to get what you desire is the wrong thing to do in the moment. When you disregard all the mental resistance telling you not to take right action, you build strength. Strength is the ability to follow your core intent and purpose with unreactivity.
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