Jim Marshall February 3, 1936—March 24, 2010

The man took photos that influenced my life.

~Jim Marshall~ February 3, 1936—March 24, 2010

If You Dont Like The Effects Dont Produce The Cause

by Funkadelic


If you don't like the effect
Don't produce the cause

You say you don't like where you're at (yeah)
You can make a change
If you accept the blame
Stay in control of your reactions yes
Will determine the effect
Of any situation
You have the power to negate
Any of supposing feeling
That prohibits you to think
A situation is just that
It has no special power
To do you harm
It's your reactions that count
If you don't like the effect
Don't produce the cause

You say you don't like what your country's about (yeah)
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
You picket this and protest that
And eat yourself fat
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
If you don't like the effect
Don't produce the cause

You say you don't like what your country's about (yeah)
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
You picket this and protest that
And eat yourself fat
Ain't you deep
In your semi-first class seat
La la la la-la la la la la

a fine quote

"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there."

- Henry Miller