Today's Transcendence

Heard the Mixtape Yet??? If Not, Here’s a Few Dope Samples…

Peace,

I was playing this for my new roommate and some other friends last weekend, and just realized that you may of not gotten the chance to check it out for yourself.

It’s called “The First Forecast,” and it’s a cool, FREE audio project that gives new readers a feel for what DoTheKnowledge.com is all about.

Here’s a few samples:

(2) Born Mature – Rhyme Clip

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(5) Liberty Style 81

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(7) Respect (Classic Rhymes from Al Rasun)

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…There’s a total of 13 great tracks (even me doing some spoken word) as well as some more audio and video content like interviews, lecture clips and more, and when you get the mixtape you’ll automatically join the newsletter too (a great way to stay updated on what’s coming next, get highlights and previews of the best of the blog, and much more).

Sign up for it in the right sidebar now…

Peace,
+B

>> More on “The First Forecast”: a Free Mixtape from DoTheKnowledge.com
>> Catch me and my friend El Rasun in a Rhyme-Cipher here…
>> Good Harmonics to Soothe the Mind
>> An Introduction to Dream Analysis (also has some poetry of mine)
>> How to Relax Your Way to Greater Achievement (& Donate to DTK @ the Same Time)

Filed under: Genesis (News & Orientation), Harmonics (Music, Rhyme Ciphers, etc...), Uncategorized on June 14th, 2010

jewels (quotations & Maxims):

"The mind is like the stomach, it's not how much you put into that counts, but how much it digests..."
(A.J. Knock)

"To conquer new oceans, we must first have the courage to leave the shore..." (anonymous)

"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.."
(Plato)

"The time is now, be who you're supposed to be..." (Lauryn Hill)

"The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary."
(May V. Smith)

"Damn the bling-bling, cultivate your INNER-KING."
(Bro. Phil Valentine)

"Silence is key, attention is golden..." (anonymous)

"Our doubts are traitors, causing us to lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." (Shakespeare)

"There's no magic to community development: things will get better when people take responsibility for making them better."
(Bryan Ogilvie)

"You are not your mind...your mind is your servant." (anonymous)

"We are what we frequently do..."
(Aristotle)

"Respect your own needs and feelings, even when others do not...ESPECIALLY when others do not."
(Richard Heller)

"A loose tongue is often one's greatest liability."
(anonymous)

"Royalty is not blood, a king is in the soul...energy to manifest, not a title to bestow." (Bryan Ogilvie)

"But you lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? I want you to learn this lesson: a little sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber..."
(Proverbs 6:9-12)

"A true musician never blames his instruments..." (American saying)

"For a man to know, he must himself be what he knows..." (The Aquarian Gospel)

"The balance of life comes with the balance of mind."

"There are 2 types of men who do not amount to much: those who cannot do as they're told and those who can do nothing else." (Cyrus H.K. Curtis)

"Care of others approval and you become their prisoner."
(Lao Tzu)

"Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one."
(Michael Parenti)

"I'm bringing ancient mathe- matics back to modern man - My momma told me "never throw a stone and hide your hand." (Jay Electronica)

"The highest Human Science is the Science of Practical Individual Culture...the Highest Human Art is the Art of Making the Most of Self and its Career. ONE SCIENCE-ART STANDS SUPREME: the Science-Art of Successful Being, Successful living and Successful Doing...."
(Frank Channing Haddock)

"To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand: he uses both..." (St. Catherine of Siena)

"Adversity introduces a man to himself." (Anon.)

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm..." (Publius Syrius)

"Possession pampers the mind; deprivation trains and strengthens it..." (William Hazlitt)

"What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the necessity for exertion: a bug-bear for children and fools, but a stimulus to men..." (Samuel Warren)

"It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it." (Benjamin Franklin)

"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwords speaks according to his actions." (Confucius)

"All is flux; nothing stays still..." (Kemetic Principle)

"Wait for the wisest of all counselors...TIME." (Pericles)

"By nature, men are nearly alike. By practice, the grow to become wide apart..." (Confucius)

"When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them. When we see men of contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves..." (Confucius)

"God always pairs like with like..." (Homer)

"The test of any man lies in action." (Pindar)

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future." (Euripedes)

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves..." (Sophocles)

"Where there are no men, you try to be one." (Hillel)

"I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's one marked brightness but it don't work, does it?" (Leo Anthony Gallagher)

"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation..." (Roger Allen)

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity..." (EINSTEIN)

" Goals must never be from your ego, but from problems that cry for a solution." (robert h. schuller)

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures...." (henry ward beecher)

"Pride cometh before a fall, and a haughty spirit before destruction." (proverbs 16:18)

""It's actually one of my goals to create one of the coolest, most cutting-edge learning environments of the digital age...into the future, I want to be someone who's created a resource - a resource based on the way the future will be - that comes to helps TENS of THOUSANDS of people." (bryan ogilvie)

"The relationship of history to a people is the same as the relationship of a mother to her child..." (john henrik clarke)

"Fantasy intervenes where exact knowledge is missing..." (James Hillman)

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power..." (Tao Te Ching)