

In fact, it’s this self-centered mind that wastes our life. What is it that wastes our life? How can we avoid wasting our life? At the beginning of the last two evenings, I’ve been talking about the disadvantages of the self-centered mind. When we were setting a positive motivation for listening to the teaching just now, I was talking about the preciousness of this human life and how important it is to use our time in a wise way and not to waste our life.


Like Burnt out Star, this transition works via percussion, introducing a new tempo and rhythm part that carries the second half of the song into a different place. Abruptly (and awesomely) transitions into laid back psych-trance half way through.Īmen Dunes, L.A. There are any number of Sufjan Stevens songs that follow this basic structure to at least some extent, but this one embodies the qualities I’m looking for the most, I think.Ĭategory 2: gradual or sudden tone shifts

I guess this is your classic “Beatlesesque” crescendo, but it’s got very much the epiphanic mood and melodic payoff I’m looking for. Obviously, what constitutes “beautiful” or “sublime” is thoroughly subjective, but I have a few songs already on the playlist that hopefully illustrate the kind of AB song structure I’m looking for.įlorence + The Machine, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.
