Să Vedem, A Zis Orbul

This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and sun and the animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labors to others,
Hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
Have patience and indulgence toward the people,
Take off your hat to nothing known or unknown,
Or to any man or number of men,
Go freely with powerful uneducated persons,
And with the young and with the mothers of families,
Read these leaves in the open air,
Every season of every year of your life,
Reexamine all you have been told,
At school at church or in any book,
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
And your very flesh shall be a great poem,
And have the richest fluency not only in its words,
But in the silent lines of its lips and face,
And between the lashes of your eyes,
And in every motion and joint of your body.

- Walt Whitman (From Preface to Leaves of Grass, 1855)

(Source: reikiforreallife)

The Beatles are the only pop group in the history of pop music that are actually better than everyone says they are. Ever had that feeling when listening to a new artist that you’d be waiting all your life to hear this music, while not even being aware that you were waiting? Imagine a whole planet feeling like that. Even 42 years after they fell apart The Beatles’ records retain every ounce of raw power. That’s not nostalgia. If it were, no one under 50 would listen. These records have been pored over for six decades, yet the magical mystery of why no one has ever made better ones remains. We won’t ever see their like again. And here’s the challenge that has faced every person who has written a pop song in the last 50 years: perhaps they were just so good, that we’ll never really need to. Now that really is an uncomfortable truth.

- Rob Fitzpatrick on The Beatles (via safety-in-the-clouds)