George Harrison 1943-2001 ...Beware Of Darkness & My Sweet Lord ~ Billy Preston & George's son Dhani, Eric, Paul, Ringo, Jeff, Ravi & other friends

Redeem those who are lost
Sanctify those that are redeemed
And give joy to those that are sanctified

Marie Curie 1867-1934 ~ Dan Hicks 1941- ...I Scare Myself

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.

Reinhold Niebuhr 1892-1971 ~ Sam Cooke 1931-1964 ...A Change Is Gonna Come ~ Allison Moorer 1972-

God grant me the serenity to accept the things
I cannot change; courage to change the things
I can; and wisdom to know the difference.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955 ~ Captain and Tennille (Daryl Dragon 1942- & Toni Tennille 1940- ) ...Muskrat Love ~ The Captain & Captain

Love alone is capable of uniting living
beings in such a way as to complete and
fulfill them for it alone takes them and
joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Only - but this is rare - when a beloved hand is laid in ours,
When, jaded with the rush and glare of the interminable hours,
Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, when our world-deafened ear
Is by the tones of a loved voice caressed - a bolt is shot back
Somewhere in our breast, and a lost pulse of feeling stirs again;
The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, and what we mean, we say,
And what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of his life's flow.

John Addington Symonds 1840-1893 ~ Steely Dan (Donald Fagan 1948- & Walter Becker 1950-)...Bodhisattva ~China's Disabled Peoples Performing Art Troupe

These things shall be!
A loftier race than e'er the World
has known shall rise with flame of freedom
in their souls and light of knowledge in their eyes.

Hildegarde of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Loreena McKennitt 1957- ...Santiago ~ Loki - Heidi - Penny -Temper

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

Jesus Christ ?- ~Santa Claus ?- ~Ry Cooder 1947- ...Jesus On The Mainline (traditional) w/The Moula Banda Rythm Aces~Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Give and to you shall be given.
HoHoHo!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 ~ Trans-Siberian Orchestra...Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12/24 (Leontovych 1877-1921 ...Carol Of The Bells)

Music is the Universal language of mankind.

Maya Angelou 1928- ~ Raymond Scott 1908-1994 & Mitchell Parish 1900-1993...Christmas Night In Harlem ~ Louis(Satchmo)Armstrong 1901-1971

A joyful spirit is evidence of a grateful heart.

Hermes ~ Placide Cappeau 1808-1877 - Adolphe Adam 1803-1856 ...O Holy Night ~ Mahalia Jackson 1911-1972

The Mind, then, is not separated off from God's essentiality,
but is united unto it, as light to sun.

Anonymous ?-? ~ The Youngsters ...Christmas In Jail ~ Trailer Park Boys

Two natures beat within my breast
One is foul; one is blessed
One I love; one I hate
The one I feed will dominate.

مولانا جلال الدین محمد رو Rumi 1207-1273 ~ Si Cranstoun (The Dualers est 2004 ) ...Cuddle up

Love is a fire and I am wood

Winston Churchill 1874-1965 ~ Dolly Parton 1946- ...Hard Candy Christmas ~ The Lady Fancy

You make a living by what you get
And a life by what you give.

Tchaikovsky 1840-1893... Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy ~ William Zeitler ~ Steve Ward & Jeff Larson ~ Fantasia Soundtrack

May you always work like you don't need the money;
May you always love like you've never been hurt;
And may you always dance like there's nobody watching.

Charles Dickens 1786-1851 ~ Charles Brown 1922-1999...Merry Christmas Baby

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

John 1-:1:6,9 ~ Et Lux In Tenebris - Gregorian Chant

And the light shineth in darkness...that was the true light,
which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.

Abraham Heschel 1907-1972 ~ ?-?-? ~ Dean Martin 1917-1995 ...Christmas Blues

Just to be is a blessing
Just to live is holy.

Rev John Henry Hopkins 1820-1899 ~ The Imaginary Trio ...We Three Kings

Guide us to Thy perfect light...

Berthold Auerbach 1912-1982 ~ Rogers & Hammerstein (Richard 1902-1979/Oscar 1895-1960)...My Favorite Things ~ Linda Sandiford & Nico Vlahavas

Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.

Rachel Carson 1907-1964 ~ Victor Hebert 1859-1924 & Glen MacDonough 1870-1924...Toyland ~ Leon Redbone

A Wish For Children
If I had influence with the good fairy - who is supposed
to preside over the christening of all children, I should
ask that her gift to each child be a sense of wonder so
indestructible that it would last throughout life, an
unfailing antidote against boredom and disenchantment
of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that
are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

Carl Jung 1875-1961 ~ Joni Mitchell 1943- ...River

If you accept the fact that fate is really created
by your own self, then you are in the current
and then even if the external situation is bad
you have the spring flowing within.
Then you can say with the exalted
the soul becometh joyful
for your are in the river of life
you are joyful you are lifted up by the river.
-Zarathustra

Mark Twain 1835-1910 ~ John Prine 1946- ...Christmas In Prison ~ John Darnielle (The Mountain Goats est 1991)

I do love you...
as the dew loves the flowers
as the birds love the sunshine
as the wavelets love the breeze.

R.F. Langley 1902-1999 ~ Frank Loesser 1910-1960 ...Baby It's Cold Outside ~ Johnny Mercer & Margaret Whiting ~ Cassandra

The Earth is cloaked in silver and the moon's veneer of light
makes every tree and frozen lake gleam on this silver night.

Alan Watts 1915-1973 ~ Advent Vespers Hymn Creator Of The Stars Of Night ~ Denis Y. Boulet

For the love that expresses itself in creative action is something much more
than an emotion. It is not something which you can feel and know -
remember and define. Love is the organizing and unifying principle which
makes the World a Universe and the disintegrated mass a community. It is
the very essence and character of mind and becomes manifest in action when
the mind is whole. For the mind must be interested or absorbed in something,
just as a mirror must always be reflecting something. When it is not trying
to be interested in itself - as if a mirror would reflect itself - it must be
interested, or absorbed, in other people and things. There is no problem of
how to love. We love. We are love, whether it is to go straight out like
sunlight, or try to turn back on itself like a candle under a bushel. Released
from the circle of attempted self-love, the mind of man draws the whole
Universe into its own unity as a single dewdrop seems to contain the entire sky.

Alan+Marilyn Bergman 1925-/1929- & Michel Legrand 1932- ...Windmills Of Your Mind ~ Alison Moyet 1961-

...like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind...


Round
like a circle in a spiral
like a wheel within a wheel
never ending or beginning
on an ever spinning reel
like a snowball down a mountain
or a carnival balloon
like a carousel that’s turning
running rings around the moon

like a clock whose hands are sweeping
past the minutes of its face
and the world is like an apple
whirling silently in space
like the circles that you find
in the windmills of your mind

like a tunnel that you follow
to a tunnel of its own
down a hollow to a cavern
where the sun has never shone,
like a door that keeps revolving
in a half forgotten dream,
or the ripples from a pebble
someone tosses in a stream

like a clock whose hands are sweeping ....

keys that jingle in your pocket
words that jangle in your head
why did summer go so quickly
was it something that you said
lovers walk along a shore
and leave their footprints in the sand


is the sound of distant drumming
just the fingers of your hand
pictures hanging in a hallway
and the fragment of this song
half remembered names and faces
but to whom do they belong

he: when you knew
that it was over
you were suddenly aware
that the autumn leaves were turning
to the color
of her hair

she: when you knew
that it was over
in the autumn of goodbyes
for a moment
you could not recall the color
of his eyes

like a circle in a spiral
like a wheel within a wheel
never ending or beginning
on an ever spinning reel

as the images unwind
like the circles
that you find
in the windmills of your mind

Julian of Norwich 1342-1416 ~ Ron Sexsmith 1964- ... Gold In Them Hills with Chris Martin 1977-

Faith is nothing else but a right understanding of our being -
trusting and allowing things to be.

Robert Browning 1812-1889 ~ Neil Young 1945- ...Mellow My Mind

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be
The last of life, for which the first was made
Our times are in his hand.

Buddha ?-? (aka Siddhartha Gautama) ~ Bob Dylan (aka Robert Zimmerman) 1941-...Buckets Of Rain

There are these three persons found existing in the world.
The one who is like a drought, the one who rains locally
and the one who pours down everywhere.

Ansel Adams 1902-1984 ~ Willie Nelson 1941- ...Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground ~ Shelby Lynne 1968-

I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one.
Let our souls be mountains, let our spirits be stars,
Let our hearts be worlds.

I Corinthians 15:51-52 ~ Etta James 1938- Leroy Kirkland 1906-1988 Pearl Woods 1933-... Something Got A Hold On Me

We shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

Mother Theresa 1910-1997 ~ Thomas Durden 1919-1999 & Mae Boren Axton 1914-1997...Heartbreak Hotel ~ John Cale-Richard Thompson-Shawn Colvin

The greatest suffering is being lonely,
being unwanted, being unloved,
just having no one.

W.B.Yeats 1865-1939 ~ Sjon 1962- & Bjork 1965- ...Bachelorette

Beloved gaze within thine own heart, the holy tree is growing there;
From joy the holy branches start, and all the trembling flowers they bear...


I'm a fountain of blood
In the shape of a girl
You're the bird on the brim
Hypnotised by the Whirl

Drink me, make me feel real
Wet your beak in the stream
Game we're playing is life
Love is a two way dream

Leave me now, return tonight
Tide will show you the way
If you forget my name
You will go astray
Like a killer whale
Trapped in a bay

I'm a path of cinders
Burning under your feet
You're the one who walks me
I'm your one way street

I'm a whisper in water
Secret for you to hear
You are the one who grows distant
When I beckon you near

Leave me now, return tonight
The tide will show you the way
If you forget my name
You will go astray
Like a killer whale
Trapped in a bay

I'm a tree that grows hearts
One for each that you take
You're the intruders hand
I'm the branch that you break
Hum-yeah!
...?(In Icelandic)?...