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><channel><title>My Muse ~ Movies, Music &#38; Books</title> <atom:link href="http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com</link> <description>     Spiritual journeys and words inspired by the arts...</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:52:34 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator> <item><title>Matches and the eternal sunshine of the spotless soul ~ Lawrence of Arabia</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/28/matches-and-the-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-soul-lawrence-of-arabia/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/28/matches-and-the-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-soul-lawrence-of-arabia/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:02:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Narrative]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[being]]></category> <category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eternal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eternal flame]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lawrence of Arabia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[light]]></category> <category><![CDATA[match]]></category> <category><![CDATA[metaphor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[shield]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Soul]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=2161</guid> <description><![CDATA[Metaphor. I love metaphor. Matches. I just posted one about matches. Matches and pain. This one isn&#8217;t about pain. Not at all. It&#8217;s about perfection. This one is about the fire that burns inside each of us. Well, maybe there&#8217;s a little pain. It&#8217;s the pain you feel in your eyes as the sun rises [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/28/matches-and-the-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-soul-lawrence-of-arabia/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dog &amp; Butterfly ~ The beauty and bliss of reaching higher than you can grasp</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/26/dog-butterfly-the-beauty-and-bliss-of-reaching-higher-than-you-can-grasp/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/26/dog-butterfly-the-beauty-and-bliss-of-reaching-higher-than-you-can-grasp/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:43:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pop]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ann & Nancy Wilson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[butterflies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[determination]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dog & Butterfly]]></category> <category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heart]]></category> <category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category> <category><![CDATA[journey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[laughter]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mirth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[purpose]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=2119</guid> <description><![CDATA[Heart&#8217;s Dog &#38; Butterfly has been on my mind and in my ears a lot the last few days, both the album and the title song from it. I love the song for the mirthful image of a dog futilely leaping after a fluttering butterfly, and for its wisdom in directing us in our moments [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/26/dog-butterfly-the-beauty-and-bliss-of-reaching-higher-than-you-can-grasp/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The trick &#8230; is not minding that it hurts ~ Lawrence of Arabia</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/21/the-trick-is-not-minding-that-it-hurts-lawrence-of-arabia/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/21/the-trick-is-not-minding-that-it-hurts-lawrence-of-arabia/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:15:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Narrative]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crisis of identity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fear]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lawrence of Arabia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Peter O'Toole]]></category> <category><![CDATA[self doubt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[suffering]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1940</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always loved this scene introducing Peter O&#8217;Toole in David Lean&#8217;s Lawrence of Arabia. In a film rife with extraordinary storytelling and wisdom, it remains my favourite. In hindsight perhaps it&#8217;s the spiritual undertone of Lawrence&#8217;s statement that&#8217;s always intrigued me most because, of course, Lawrence isn&#8217;t only talking about physical pain here. There&#8217;s plenty [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/21/the-trick-is-not-minding-that-it-hurts-lawrence-of-arabia/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Beginning again with Sacred ~ Lotus Feet &amp; Shakti</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/17/beginning-again-with-sacred-lotus-feet-shakti/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/17/beginning-again-with-sacred-lotus-feet-shakti/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:39:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fusion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jazz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mantra/Spiritual]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[living sacredly]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lotus Feet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[meanness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[perfection]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Remembering Shakti]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacred]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1930</guid> <description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been living the sacred enough lately. Sometimes I forget how sacred life is, become caught up in the mundane, the day-to-day of existing in a corporeal world, in the meanness that can be everyday life. I stop, for a while, living a life that is sacred. I&#8217;m often aware that I&#8217;m doing it. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/17/beginning-again-with-sacred-lotus-feet-shakti/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Finding love within the depths ~ Asa — Subway</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/15/finding-the-love-within-the-depths-asa-subway/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/15/finding-the-love-within-the-depths-asa-subway/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:55:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Folk]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pop]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Asa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eternal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[grace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heart]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mind]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Subway]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wounds]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1922</guid> <description><![CDATA[My mama say baby be careful If any body comes to say I love you My papa say baby I warn you If anybody comes to say I love you Now you asking me to trust you Tell me how am I supposed to When I know this love don’t last ~ Asa Subway We [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/15/finding-the-love-within-the-depths-asa-subway/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A gentle inner tube ride downriver ~ Joe Walsh</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/09/a-gentle-inner-tube-ride-downriver-joe-walsh/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/09/a-gentle-inner-tube-ride-downriver-joe-walsh/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:33:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pop]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[But Seriously Folks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inner Tube]]></category> <category><![CDATA[innertube]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Joe Walsh]]></category> <category><![CDATA[languid]]></category> <category><![CDATA[peace]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[summer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sunshine]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[water]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weekend]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1917</guid> <description><![CDATA[Imagine a scorching hot summer day, a blistering sun rising higher and higher into the sky. You&#8217;ve been baking for weeks in this weather and your sking is brown, armoured against the UV with a waterproof 5,000 SPF screen, hat and shades. The river&#8217;s surface roils gently in the inexorable flow to the ocean. Feet [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/07/09/a-gentle-inner-tube-ride-downriver-joe-walsh/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Bodhisattvas of Science ~ Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson &amp; Nye sing to the rhythm of the universe</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/16/bodhisattvas-of-science-sagan-feynman-degrasse-tyson-nye-dance-to-the-rhythm-of-the-universe/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/16/bodhisattvas-of-science-sagan-feynman-degrasse-tyson-nye-dance-to-the-rhythm-of-the-universe/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[...a song]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mantra/Spiritual]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Takes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bill Nye]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bodhisattvas]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carl Sagan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cosmos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Eyes on Nye]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Boswell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[knowledge]]></category> <category><![CDATA[light]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nature]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Neil Degrasse Tyson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[physics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Feynman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wonder]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1884</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is a clever and quite lovely mashup of science, astro-physics, meta-physics, spirituality and rhythm. A dance floor Tao of Physics. I think I&#8217;ll let these bodhisattvas of science speak for themselves&#8230;what a wonderful collection of muses, of musical musings they give us&#8230;and John Boswell, the head musician and producer behind the Symphony of Science [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/16/bodhisattvas-of-science-sagan-feynman-degrasse-tyson-nye-dance-to-the-rhythm-of-the-universe/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Watery Rhythms ~ Deva Premal sings of Oshun, Goddess of rivers, seashores and love</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/13/watery-rhythms-deva-premal-sings-of-oshun-goddess-of-rivers-seashores-and-love/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/13/watery-rhythms-deva-premal-sings-of-oshun-goddess-of-rivers-seashores-and-love/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:07:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mantra/Spiritual]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Arts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[attraction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Deva Premal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[goddess]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ide Were Were]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Love is Space]]></category> <category><![CDATA[oshun]]></category> <category><![CDATA[oxum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rhythms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sensual]]></category> <category><![CDATA[water]]></category> <category><![CDATA[yoruba]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1869</guid> <description><![CDATA[Listen very closely to this song, to the underlying rhythms. What&#8217;s that sound, the shsh sshh shsshsh? This mantra is Ide Were Were, from Deva Premal&#8217;s album Love is Space. Listen closely. There&#8217;s a hint right at the start. Depending on the fidelity of your sound system, you may not recognise it. The sound quality [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/13/watery-rhythms-deva-premal-sings-of-oshun-goddess-of-rivers-seashores-and-love/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Paul Simon ~ slip slidin’ my way from the blues to the rainbow’s loving hues</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/12/paul-simon-slip-slidin-my-way-from-the-blues-to-the-rainbows-loving-hues/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/12/paul-simon-slip-slidin-my-way-from-the-blues-to-the-rainbows-loving-hues/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:57:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blues]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Music]]></category> <category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[being]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gratitude]]></category> <category><![CDATA[lessons]]></category> <category><![CDATA[love]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paul Simon]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rainbow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Slip Slidin' Away]]></category> <category><![CDATA[the blues]]></category> <category><![CDATA[transformation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[truth]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1863</guid> <description><![CDATA[A day of sunshine and warm summery breezes, moving conversation and revealed transformations, a day of intimacy and worries unburdened, of gratitude and the most difficult of life&#8217;s moments shared&#8230; A day not so much impervious to the hardships, the horrors, the blues, but one that finds itself on the other side of them, finds the lessons [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/12/paul-simon-slip-slidin-my-way-from-the-blues-to-the-rainbows-loving-hues/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>War Prayers ~ Mark Twain and Lao Tse on the artlessness of war</title><link>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/01/war-prayers-mark-twain-and-lao-tse-on-the-artlessness-of-war/</link> <comments>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/01/war-prayers-mark-twain-and-lao-tse-on-the-artlessness-of-war/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Political]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Social]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ANZAC Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[armed conflict]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bravery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[courage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dao de Jing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[enemy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[heroes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lao Tse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[liberty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mark Twain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Memorial Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[patriotism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Remembrance Day]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sacrifice]]></category> <category><![CDATA[security]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stephen Mitchell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The War Prayer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[victory]]></category> <category><![CDATA[violence]]></category> <category><![CDATA[war]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/?p=1831</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yesterday the people of The United States of America marked Memorial Day. It&#8217;s a day of baseball, hot dogs and apple pie, of families and communities gathering to celebrate the arrival of summer. It&#8217;s a day of flags and bunting and red, white &#38; blue and national pride, and a day to memorialise the millions [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.MyMuseMoviesMusicAndBooks.com/2010/06/01/war-prayers-mark-twain-and-lao-tse-on-the-artlessness-of-war/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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