Still working on the tool I mentioned in the post below and other content for my virtual home. In the spirit of this week’s theme (Big Bang), I’ve chosen to re-publish an older post. Listening to the words sung and reading the lyrics, the overall message still gives me goosebumps, every time I watch the video. Regardless your beliefs, despite the hard times; we are the lucky ones…
This morning I woke up with the song ‘it’s all about the money, money, money’ in my head and that is not so strange. The topic money has been a lot on my mind again lately and I had a few conversations about it. The moment you start studying to become a skilled helper (life coach, master coach, counselor, etc.) you will also be taught about how to set up a business. And thus how to make money. Which is perfectly fine, however, I am not all about the money.
Money is not evil
Despite what some may believe, money in itself is not evil. Money is, unfortunately, not always used for what it was designed for and that is part of our development as a species. It is OK to strive to make money, per example to provide for your beloved ones. What troubles me, there are still neighbors in our world, who misuse money and never seem to have enough of it.
Be the change you want to see in the world. I love this quote. Money can be a great motivator, however, it should not be the only one. Hence the reason why, I am working on a free guidance tool for those who could use some support and feel stuck.
Since I am not all about the money, I’ve chosen a different song to share this week. The lyrics tell the story of our evolution, beautifully crafted and to me poetry at its finest. What I also love about this piece of art: the connection between two different music genres. It is what Nightwish does best: connecting Opera and Heavy Metal. Fun fact: The female lead-singer, Floor Jansen, is from The Netherlands and thus like me a Dutch Woman 🙂
You might not be a fan of the two genres, I believe it is definitely worthwhile to watch. The message is profound.
Connect with me and share YOUR thoughts about this week’s song choice in the comments!
The Greatest Show on Earth - Nightwish
Lyrics
Archaean horizon
The first sunrise
On a pristine gaea
Opus perfectum
Somewhere there, us sleeping
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries
We have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life
Within decades we must close our eyes again
Isn’t it a noble and enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun
To work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?
The cosmic law of gravity
Pulled the newborns around a fire
A careless cold infinity in every vast direction
Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone
She has a tale to tell
From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
Enter LUCA
The tapestry of chemistry
There’s a writing in the garden
Leading us to the mother of all
We are one
We are a universe
Forebears of what will be
Scions of the Devonian sea
Aeons pass
Writing the tale of us all
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth
Ion channels welcoming the outside world
To the stuff of stars
Bedding the tree of a biological holy
Enter life
The tapestry of chemistry
There’s a writing in the garden
Leading us to the mother of all
We are one
We are a universe
Forebears of what will be
Scions of the Devonian sea
Aeons pass
Writing the tale of us all
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth
We are here to care for the garden
The wonder of birth
Of every form most beautiful
Every form most beautiful
We are one
We are a universe
Forebears of what will be
Scions of the Devonian sea
Aeons pass writing the tale of us all
A day-to-day new opening
For the greatest show on Earth
After a billion years The show is still here
Not a single one of your fathers died young
The handy travelers out of Africa
Little Lucy of the Afar
Gave birth to fantasy
To idolatry
To self-destructive weaponry
Enter the God of gaps
Deep within the past
Atavistic dread of the hunted
Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought
The architecture of understanding
The human lust to feel so exceptional
To rule the Earth
Hunger for shiny rocks
For giant mushroom clouds
The will to do just as you’d be done by
Enter history, the grand finale
Enter ratkind
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
But one day’ll cease to be
Greet the last light of the library
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
But one day’ll cease to be
Greet the last light of the library
Man, he took his time in the sun
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
He gave birth to poetry
But one day’ll cease to be
Greet the last light of the library
We were here!
We were here!
We were here!
We were here!
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones
Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born
The potential people who could have been here in my place
But who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara
Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton
We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA
So massively exceeds the set of actual people
In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here
We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds
How dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state
From which the vast majority have never stirred?”
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers
Having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one
And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity
From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been
And are being, evolved
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Soul Connection
There are many ways to Boost Your Soul and music is a fantastic one. There are a variety of genres you can listen to, even Soul Music is a genre in itself. To me, music is also a way to Connect with your Soul. A tool to help you go through emotions and acknowledge them. Depending on your mood, there will be always a piece of art that goes along with it. What I love most about music is how it can Connect people.
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I believeI have read it is ‘the love’ of money that is evil.
Hi Edward, thank you for connecting! Too much love can be dangerous too, so also when it is of money 😉
Wow, what a masterpiece!
Glad you liked it as much as I do 🙂