I have seen very few movies in the past 2 years, either due to very few interesting ones being released or due to my recent feeling that spending time in the theatre is a waste of time (not like I don't spend plenty of my time doing other wasteful things), an escape, and I have too many other things out in real life to do. The other night I rented for the first time in a very long time - "Music Within" and "Once". Once was much better than what I expected. I had resisted seeing it previously because I thought it was going to be some hip generational film that would make me feel 'too old' for not getting it - and that it would be nothing but songs - no story. But I kept hearing good reviews from people I considered to have good taste. I was pleasantly surprised. Although I did get the feeling that the story line was written around the music, just to be able to put the music in a film - but it worked. Music Within (about finding one's music within) was even better, but I had no prior knowledge of the movie and no preconceptions - I randomly picked it up in the video store. It's based on a true story and shows how very specific events and actions, in this person's life led to his life path. I love stories about fate/destiny - and this one was truly compelling because it was based on actual events. I loved this movie!
I found it interesting that I rented two movies about music on the same night - one literally and one figuratively.
Books I've read so far this year: "Eat, Pray, Love' - this book was emotionally intense. The story of the gut wrenching pain of a relationship ending brought back memories of old pain (old wounds) that I did not want to bring back. It took me places I wasn't prepared to go. I am healthy and strong and don't want to open up healed wounds. But I could also relate to that feeling of healthiness, exuberation (is this a word?), release, when you realize you have fully released your emotions/attachment/obsessiveness and completely let go - and you are free again and healthier, stronger and full of clarity because of it. This book was emotionally rich and took a bit out of me, but left me feeling full and didn't want to pick up another book for awhile. I read a Lousie Hay book - and can't remember the name...then I read "Gift of the Redbird' - spiritual is the only way I can describe it. Then "A New Earth" - I'm not sure what I read -I enjoyed it as i read it, but if you asked me specifically what it was about, I don't know that I could recap (other than it's about dealing with ego and shadows- very related to yoga and buddha philosophies and other writers, so nothing exceptionally new, but it's always good to have various perspectives and good that his book is appealing to a mass audience, so hopefully it'll help make some positive shifts in the world and lead us to a more peaceful world). One reason I don't remember much about the book is that immediately after I finished it I began reading "The Book of Secrets" by Deepok Chopra and because of the concepts (and my tired brain at the end of the day) I am only able to absorb about 4 pages at a time and it's made me forget what I read in a New Earth. I read Eckart's other book "Power of Now" many years ago and I have to say that book was very frustrating, I felt like I was reading the same concept over and over again just using different words - it was like he had a concept that could have been summarized in two sentences, but he made a book out of it - I was mad that I had wasted my time reading the whole book. But New Earth was much better and what I do remember is that I was not frustrated as I was with the Power of Now.
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