Fools , Deep Purple

"Fools"

I'm crying I'm dying

I can see what's wrong with me
It's in my head
I can see what's gonna be
As I lie in my bed
Man is not my brotherhood
I am of the dead
I died as I lived as I loved and was born
On some distant hill
The reasons to hide were the reasons I cried
Fools pass laughing still

There can be bad blood in all I can see
It's in my brain
You don't know the pain I feel
As I must live again
Rocks and stones can't bruise my soul but
Tears will leave a stain
They smile to themselves as they lay down my head
On some distant hill
The blind and the child sweep a tear from their eye
Fools smile as they kill

I got my own way to go and now I want
To take your minds
I believe if you could see
The blood between the lines
I believe that you could be
A better kind
Please lead the way so the unborn can play
On some greener hill
Laugh as the flames eat their burning remains
Fools die laughing still

Aretha Franklin , Satisfaction @ Concertgebouw Concert Amsterdam 1968

Eddie Vedder, Let My Love Open The Door

no..not that everybody seems unkind...just running,

leaving me in my circle of stones

so that i may grow as mushrooms do, in the dark:

somehow a senseless existence, the result sold and eaten in 3 minutes...

When people keep repeating
That you'll never fall in love
When everybody keeps retreating
But you can't seem to get enough

Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart
Let my love open the door, yeah
Let my love open the door, yeah

When everything feels all over
When everybody seems unkind
I bring you a four-leaf clover
Take all the worry out of your mind

Let my love open the door, yeah
Let my love open the door, yeah
Let my love open the door, yeah
To your heart, to your heart

Yeah

I have got the only key to your heart
I can stop you from falling apart
Release yourself from the misery
Only one thing gonna set you free

It's my love
It's my love
It's my love
It's my love

When tragedy befalls you
Don't let it drag you down
And love can cure your problems
Don't forget I'm around

Let my love open the door, yeah
Let my love open the door, yeah
Let my love open the door, yeah
Let my love open the door, yeah
To your heart

My love open the door, yeah
To your heart
My love open the door, yeah
To your heart
My love open the door, yeah
To your heart
My love open the door, yeah
To your heart

Let my love

Jens Gad - El Momento

Gabrielle Roth , Night Whisper

fermenting

some days

under low clouds

filled with rain

i feel

filled with yeast

fermenting

under grey sky

just one step

from being vinegar

each moment

a danger in myself

fighting fruitflies 

trying to be calm

but all moves

inside, emotion,

sweetness and acid

and the wine

takes its time

to mature

when the rain comes

there is a promise

of dilution

and release

from pain

and fullness of self

hope is green and at times cruel

Enigma , Return To Innocence

Love (love)
Devotion (devotion)
Feeling (feeling)
Emotion (emotion)

Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart, my friend
That will be the return to yourself

The return to innocence

The return to innocence

And if you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself, don't hide
Just believe in destiny

Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
To return to innocence

That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence

It's the return to innocence

T.S.Eliot, Burnt Norton

"After the kingfisher’s wing
Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
At the still point of the turning world."

full text of poem in link:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/18/t-s-eliot-reads-burnt-norton/?mc_cid=9b04fc8c3f&mc_eid=d4633eff0a

quoting: Hannah Nussbaum,Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions

"Emotions … involve judgments about important things, judgments in which, appraising an external object as salient for our own well-being, we acknowledge our own neediness and incompleteness before parts of the world that we do not fully control."

"Human beings appear to be the only mortal finite beings who wish to transcend their finitude. Thus they are the only emotional beings who wish not to be emotional, who wish to withhold these acknowledgments of neediness and to design for themselves a life in which these acknowledgments have no place. This means that they frequently learn to reject their own vulnerability and to suppress awareness of the attachments that entail it. We might also say … that they are the only animals for whom neediness is a source of shame, and who take pride in themselves to the extent to which they have allegedly gotten clear of vulnerability."

"Notice, then, that shame is far from requiring diminished self-regard. In a sense, it requires self-regard as its essential backdrop. It is only because one expects oneself to have worth or even perfection that one will shrink from or cover the evidence of one’s nonworth or imperfection. To the extent that all infants enjoy a sense of omnipotence, all infants experience shame at the recognition of their human imperfection: a universal experience underlying the biblical story of our shame at our nakedness. But a good development will allow the gradual relaxing of omnipotence in favor of trust, as the infant learns not to be ashamed of neediness and to take a positive delight in the playful and creative “subtle interplay” of two imperfect beings."

"The emotions of the adult life sometimes feel as if they flood up out of nowhere, in ways that don’t match our present view of our objects or their value. This will be especially true of the person who maintains some kind of false self-defense, and who is in consequence out of touch with the emotions of neediness and dependence, or of anger and aggression, that characterize the true self."

reality, Kafka

Reality is never and nowhere more accessible than in the immediate moment of one’s own life,” Kafka once told a teenage friend. “It’s only there that it can be won or lost.”