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    Heart Songs: Soul Lyrics
    Heart Songs: Soul Lyrics
    Heart Songs: Soul Lyrics
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    Heart Songs: Soul Lyrics

    By Clifford Bennett

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    Heart Songs - Soul Lyrics brings meaning and mission to life. 21st Century living requires adaptation, flexibility, toleration, ambiguity, and accepting new challenges. Change seems to be our only daily constant. Poetry calls out life's riches thru our heart, eyes, and soul, unveiling deeper meaning. Heart Songs - Song Lyrics brings 86 poems empowering us to see, feel and enjoy more from life.

    As a consequence of our society's e-culture, driven to satisfy our need for inner, instant ego gratification, our collective external social quality of life has diminished. We now seek to transcend to a better life for all by integrating and applying to our daily life; selflessness, deep lasting values, proper manners, spirituality, character, authenticity and gratitude, to give our lives meaning and purpose.

    Poetry acts as a catalyst to help the mind filter, process and coalesce new meaning, by exploring the depths of real life; through a holistic understanding of the human experience. Crafted skillfully, flowing naturally, a poem's Heart Songs — Soul Lyrics, penetrate our mind be reframing our perspectives, to a higher level of understanding and appreciation of the total mystery, magic, marvel, and miracles of life's journey.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClifford Bennett
    Release dateDec 22, 2013
    ISBN9781311040831
    Heart Songs: Soul Lyrics
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    Clifford Bennett

    ABOUT THE POET – AUTHORFor thirty-two years, Clifford Bennett served in two Long Island pubic school systems as the; director of student support services, special and health education, middle school principal, high school assistant principal, science department chairperson, teacher of science, and coach. He received his professional diploma from Queens College (CUNY), and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Hofstra University. Cliff served as an adjunct instructor at Hofstra University from 1961 to 1969, and was an adjunct assistant professor of education and field supervisor of student teachers at Dowling College for ten years after his retirement from public education in 1991.He has presented workshops at national, state, and local levels on prevention of self-defeating behaviors, stress management and personal growth, wellness-holistic health, and dynamics of self-esteem. He has published twenty-seven articles on educational and mental health issues in numerous professional journals, and the author of Challenging Choices – Welcome Life’s Invitations to Increase your Vision, Create Space, 2011, Amazon.com, Kindle.He is father of four children and grandfather of eight. He resides in Holbrook, New York, and Estero, Florida, with his wife, Judy. His hobbies include all outdoor activities, especially, gardening, fishing, golf, as well as reading and writing poetry.

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      Heart Songs - Clifford Bennett

      Living in the 21st century requires constant adaptation and flexibility. Each day seems to bring something new, and different, into our way of life. These rapid changes caused by; Globalization, White Collar Crime, Economic Instability World-Wide, Wars, Terrorism, Governmental-Political Paralysis and Incompetence, Scientific Research, and Technology. Changes from technology cause both loss of jobs and creation of new ones. Education is no longer in our past experience but required throughout our lives as our professions and work requirements change and morph, requiring on-going mandatory re-tooling, re-education, and re-training.

      The impact of technology through cyberspace, e-mail, cell phones, i-Pads, apps, etc. has generated an erosion of common courtesy — civil behavior by rude self-centered use of these devices in public places. When a paradigm changes, we all go back to zero,... to create a new mental worldview that is accurate. We now live in a new reality with improved means in communication and electronic gadgets, but our own ends have been minimized and impoverished. Our common core values are being lost.

      As a consequence of our society's e-culture, driven to satisfy our need for inner, instant ego gratification, our collective external social quality of life has diminished. We now seek to transcend to a better life for all by integrating and applying to our daily life; selflessness, deep lasting values, proper manners, spirituality, character, authenticity and gratitude, to give our lives meaning and purpose.

      One of the activities I do to Maintain perspective and a positive philosophy of life, is to read, ... and especially write poetry, to process my feelings. Both help shift my mind-set to better space, albeit for a short duration. Through these, I transcend to a better inner peaceful place inside the human spirit; mind, heart, and soul, ... fusing together to co-create timeless, priceless inner feelings of meaning and peace, to counter balance the constant bombardment to consume more external, empty materialistic self -centered prosperity.

      Poetry acts as a catalyst to help the mind filter, process and coalesce new meaning, by exploring the depths of real life; through a holistic understanding of the human experience. Crafted skillfully, flowing naturally, a poem's Heart Songs — Soul Lyrics, penetrate our mind be reframing our perspectives, to a higher level of understanding and appreciation of the total mystery, magic, marvel, and miracles of life's journey.

      We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.

      We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

      —Piere Teilhard de Chardin

      Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

      —Anne Sexton

      Brain: An apparatus with which we think we think.

      —Ambrose Bierce

      You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

      —Mark Twain

      All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

      The mind is everything. What we think we become.

      —Buddha

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I am beholden to all the authors and poets for their profound insight, wisdom, and inspiring quotes that I’ve included that provide

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