Man of the hour

Norah Jones - Man of the hour


from the album "The Fall" (2009)


Esta é uma música muito engraçada que Norah Jones escreveu em homenagem ao seu cão, Ralph :)





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The Object of Education

The object of education is to give man the unity of truth. Formerly, when life was simple, all the different elements of man were in complete harmony. But when there came the separation of the intellect from the spiritual and the physical, the school education put entire emphasis on intellect and the physical side of man. We devote our sole attention to giving children information, not knowing that by this emphasis we are accentuating a break between the intellectual, physical, and the spiritual life... I believe in a spiritual world not as anything separate from this world but as its innermost truth. With the breath we draw we must always feel this truth, that we are living in God. Born in this great world, full of the mystery of the infinite, we cannot accept our existence as a momentary outburst of chance drifting on the current of matter toward an eternal nowhere. We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

Rabindranath Tagore


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Panis Angelicus

Panis Angelicus

César Franck (1822-1880)

Cantado por Charlotte Church

Panis angelicus

fit panis hominum;

Dat panis caelicus

figuris terminum:

O res mirabilis!

manducat Dominum

Pauper, servus, et humilis.

Te trina Deitas

unaque poscimus:

Sic nos tu visita,

sicut te colimus;

Per tuas semitas

duc nos quo tendimus,

Ad lucem quam inhabitas.

Amen.

Pão dos Anjos

fez o pão dos homens;

O Pão celestial

acaba com todos os símbolos (figuras):

que coisa maravilhosa!

O Senhor torna-se o nosso alimento:

do pobre, servo e humilde.

Nós rogamos-te

Uno Trino

Que nos visites,

como nós Te adoramos,

conduz-nos pelos Teus caminhos,

nós que desejamos alcançar

a Luz onde tu habitas.

Amen.

Bread of Angels
made the bread of men;
The Bread of heaven
puts an end to all symbols:
A thing wonderful!
The Lord becomes our food:
poor, a servant, and humble.
We beseech Thee,
Godhead One in Three
That Thou wilt visit us,
as we worship Thee,
lead us through Thy ways,
We who wish to reach the light
in which Thou dwellest.
Amen.

Pintura: "A Criação do Homem" de Miguel Ângelo

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