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Clip from The Southbank Show, 1997.

Remembering Ravi Shankar.

“They exchanged ideas and melodies until their minds and hearts, east and west, were entwined, like a double helix.” - Olivia Harrison, from her eulogy at memorial service for Ravi, December 2012

“To me, George is, I don’t know how to describe it, a son, a friend, someone very dear, and I love him very much. He has given me so much love and respect that my heart is full of it.” - Ravi Shankar, Los Angeles Times, 1997

“[George] was a loyal man and even a few months ago when he was seriously ill and we were making a programme for The South Bank Show on Ravi Shankar, George […] talked it through on the phone several times, gave us previously unseen home movie footage of himself and Ravi Shankar, could not do enough to honor his old guru.” - Melvyn Bragg, The Observer, December 2, 2001

“During that time, you know, we met just about everybody and I just thought, well, I’m looking for something really beyond just the ordinary, the mundane, and that’s where I wanted somebody to impress me and, you know, I didn’t expect it to be this little Indian man but, you know, good things come in small packages.” - George Harrison, CBS This Morning, 1997

“Ravi is one of the greatest figures of the 20th century — the godfather of world music.” - George Harrison, Billboard, 2001

“He had a magnanimous heart and always cared so much. He was a fearless and beautiful soul always conscious of God. I loved him dearly. Though he is gone physically, he will always be alive and vibrant in my heart.” - Ravi Shankar, The New York Times, December 9, 2001

“‘At the end of his life George said to me that all he could listen to was “Sarve Shaam,”’ Olivia remembers. ‘After all the sounds and sights and tastes you experience over a lifetime, it came down to the purity of “Sarve Shaam.”’ The piece was also performed as the opening blessing at the Concert for George memorial, held at London’s Albert Hall in 2002.” - Songlines, June 2018 (x)

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~~~~~., Quotes for Friday August 4,2017

Quotes for Friday August 4,2017 Appreciation quotes Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.--Susan Taylor The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.--G. K. Chesterton (Autobiography) Appreciate what you have, accept the blessings waiting for you to need them, and above all - realize that Source from which it all comes.--Michael Rawls Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.--Voltaire Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.--Marty Rubin ~~~~~~~~~ Blessings quotes The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrises.   Clement of Alexandria Live a life of gratitude, giving thanks in all circumstances.   Mary C. Neal, MD, To Heaven and Back Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.  Joyce Meyers, the power of simple prayer It is a blessed thought, that from our childhood God has been laying His fatherly hands upon us, and always in benediction; that even the strokes of His hands are blessings, and among the chiefest we have ever received.  Henry Edward Manning The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.  Charles Swindoll, Day by Day  You can either be angry for what you don't have or thankful for what you do have. Do your best and God will do the rest.   Nick Vujicic Things, like diamonds, that – in the grand scheme of life – are nice, but really don’t matter and bring neither blessing – nor God’s best – to my life.  Gwen Smith Not only will gratitude make you happier, but it will make the world you live in a better place. Claire Shannon, Gratitude: Feel Grateful Today and Every Day ~~~~~~~~~~ Forgiveness quotes Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.--Hannah More ("Christianity a Practical Principle" Practical Piety) Forgiveness is the final form of love.--Reinhold Niebuhr Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.--Anonymous Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.--George Macdonald Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.--William Arthur Ward (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 154) Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.--Hannah Arendt ~~~~~~~~~~ Hope is a good thing--maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.--Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption) Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.--Thomas Chandler Haliburton Hope is a talent like any other.--Storm Jameson Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.--Jeremy Collier Hope is a waking dream.--Aristotle Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.--Lin Yutang Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.--Letitia E. Landon Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.--Max Lucado (God Came Near) ~~~~~~~~~ Life quotes Life is simple, it's just not easy. ~Author Unknown A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Andersen When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prayer quotea Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. -Benjamin Franklin You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. -Kahlil Gibran God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil. -E.M. Bounds We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. - Oswald Chambers A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. -Paulo Coelho Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning. -Oswald Chambers The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second. -Jodi Picoult Never pray for justice, because you might get some. -Margaret Atwood