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Please visit imaginepeace.com to write your tributes. My sympathy and love to Yoko, Sean and Julian on this very sad day. But since all time is now, John is still here with us, with his beautiful music and beautiful soul. Peace and let us all continue to Imagine...
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  1. Alexander StuartDecember 08, 2011

    I still remember the morning (in England) I heard that John Lennon was dead. I had just woken, Ann (my wife then) told me - it was like hearing JFK had been assassinated. I think John Lennon probably made a larger contribution to the world than JFK - Lennon changed how I thought, affected how I lived my life (I credit Yoko Ono with these changes, too) - and made some of the most beautiful music ever created. I would rank him alongside Mozart, with a touch of Gandhi and the humor of Einstein.

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  2. B.Z. SmithDecember 09, 2011

    I've often imagined what music would have poured from his soul, what passion he would have shared, what influence he would have had on culture, on politics, on our lives. Dear John, we miss you. A day never sets without millions of us hearing your art. Between the moon and the sun, we still remember you.

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  3. Alexander StuartDecember 09, 2011

    Thank you both for your comments. John was an inspiration and a visionary. If you read, listen to or watch the news, sometimes it's hard to see the peace that is within us, but we are born with a harmony that fills the cosmos, even if at times that harmony resembles beautiful - or terrifying - chaos. Peace is possible. Peace is now. Peace is us. We are love...and we all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun. (To have written that line alone would make a life worthwhile).

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