Jun 26, 2016

Lady Gaga Speaks at U.S. Conference of Mayors

Lady Gaga Speaks at U.S. Conference of Mayors

Lady Gaga joined His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, alongside businessman and philantropist Phillip Anschutz at The U.S. Conference of Mayors 84th Annual Meeting in Indianapolis on Sunday morning.  Moderated by journalist Ann Curry, they discuss and spoke about the major importance of compassion and the multiple ways to make the world a kinder and braver place.

The discussion started as Curry asked: "You both [Gaga and Phillip] are in a room full of Mayors who are dealing with enormous difficult issues like public safety, cuts on education, all kinds of issues. Why do you think kindness should have a part in their thinking as they tried to lift their cities into more thriving places."

Lady Gaga starts sprsking at 01:00:15

Gaga answered: "The really fantastic thing about kindness is that it's free. It's the best resource that we have because you can give and receive kindness and the well of it inside of you will never dry up. And it can’t hurt you or anyone else. It's the thing that brings us all together.

I feel the most important the reason to focus on kindness with what we're experiencing in the world is to consider the United States as a human body, and the brain is the government. And all the organs south of the neck: this is the people. These different organs in our body, these are the different factions, the things that separate us as people.

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She continued: "What we're experiencing right now is that the mind of the United States and the body are not talking. There’s no connection. In science, what it tells us is that this connection between the brain and the rest of the body, when it erodes, you have system failure. Brain damage. This is what we're witnessing. Because the mind of the United States and the body of the United States are not connected we have disharmony. And kindness is the cheapest way to cure that, and it has a priceless aftermath."