passion rises from the ashes: March 2008

Sunday, March 30, 2008

rastafarian thoughts of bob marley...........

Don't Let them fool ya or even try to school ya .........

Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright ..........

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen ....

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side ....

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me..........

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue ...........

If you are the big, big tree, we are the small axe, ready to cut you down! ..............

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say ................

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality . Wake Up and Live! ............

My future is righteousness .....................

One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain .............

Overcome the devils with a thing named love...........

Politics no interest me. Dem devil business.... Dem a play with peoples minds. Never play with peoples minds ................

Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy ..............

Bob Marley was a hero figure, in the classic mythological sense. His departure from this planet came at a point when his vision of One World, One Love -- inspired by his belief in Rastafari -- was beginning to be heard and felt. The last Bob Marley and the Wailers tour in 1980 attracted the largest audiences at that time for any musical act in Europe.

Bob's story is that of an archetype, which is why it continues to have such a powerful and ever-growing resonance: it embodies political repression, metaphysical and artistic insights, gangland warfare and various periods of mystical wilderness. And his audience continues to widen: to westerners Bob's apocalyptic truths prove inspirational and life-changing; in the Third World his impact goes much further. Not just among Jamaicans, but also the Hopi Indians of New Mexico and the Maoris of New Zealand, in Indonesia and India, and especially in those parts of West Africa.

"The Food That Feeds Our Souls!"

Music raises the soul of man even higher than the so-called external form of religion...

There will come a day when music and its philosophy will become the religion of humanity...If there remains any magic it is music.

That music alone can be called real which comes from the harmony of the soul, its true source, and when it comes from there it must appeal to all souls...Music alone can be the means by which the souls of races, nations and families, which are today so apart, may one day be united...The more the musician is conscious of his mission in life, the greater service he can render to humanity.

Music is behind the working of the whole universe. Music is not only life's greatest object, but music is life itself...Music being the most exalted of the arts, the work of the composer is no less than the work of a saint.

The use of music for spiritual attainment and healing of the soul, which was prevelent in ancient times, is not found to the same extent now. Music has been made a pastime, the means of forgetting God instead of realizing God. It is the use one makes of things which constitutes their fault or their virtue.