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Chloë Sevigny singing - So incredibly beautiful, one of my all time favorite moments in film.

Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
Directed by Harmony Korine

“We do not “come into” into this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe. This fact is rarely, if ever, experienced by most individuals. Even those who know it to be true in theory do not sense or feel it, but continue to be aware of themselves as isolated “egos” inside bags of skin.”
- Alan Watts

“Out of emptiness arises compassion” – Ram Dass

“Being not identified with the actor and not being identified with the fruits of the action” – Ram Dass

“There was only one Christian and they crucified him” - Nietzsche

“My life is my message” – Gandhi

David Icke along with Alan Watts, Carl Sagan, Krishnamurti, Bill Hicks & John Lennon

We need a “Revolution of Perception”

“It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd – uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don’t. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Why, of all possible worlds, this colossal and apparently unnecessary multitude of galaxies in a mysteriously curved space-time continuum, these myriads of differing tube-species playing frantic games of one-upmanship, these numberless ways of “doing it” from the elegant architecture of the snow crystal or the diatom to the startling magnificence of the lyrebird or the peacock?”
- Alan Watts

“The language of failure and disappointment, disenchantment, disillusionment, is a little bit Romantic for me…. Why not have a sense of gratitude that you’re able to do as much as you did? That you’re able to love as much and think as much and play as much? Why think you need the whole thing? Where’s the expectation that you need the whole thing coming from?…

America’s a very fragile, democratic experiment predicated on the disposition of the lands of indigenous people and the enslavement of African people and the subjugation of workers and women and the marginalization of gays and lesbians. It has great potential, but this notion that somehow we had it all or ever will have it all, that’s got to go, you’ve got to push it to the side.

And once you push all that to the side, then it tends to evacuate the language of disappointment and the language of failure. And you say, OK, how much have we done? How have we been able to do it? Can we do more? In some situations you can’t do more. It’s like trying to break-dance at seventy-five, you can’t do it anymore! You were a master at sixteen; it’s over! You can’t make love at eighty the way you did at twenty, so what? Time is real!”
- Cornel West

Clips from “Examined Life” by Astra Taylor - Trailer – Full Film

“The felt presence of immediate experience– this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.”
- Terence McKenna

“It’s all about personal empowerment, and personal empowerment means deconditioning yourself from the values and the programs of the society and putting your own values and programs in place.”
- Terence McKenna

“When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?
I want my children listening to people who fucking rocked!”
- Bill Hicks

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Elton John performs “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
The Muppet Show episode  214 from 1977