Hebrews 11:1 ~ Them (Van Morrison 1945- ) ...Don't Look Back

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1823-1884 ~ Traditional - Nina Simone 1933-2003 ...Sinnerman

A man is a facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
What we call man - the eating, drinking, planting, counting man does not,
As we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents him.
If he would let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes
Through his will, It is virtue; when it breathes through his affection,
It is love...we know that all spiritual Being is in man. A wise old proverb says
"God comes to see us without bell"; that is, as there is not screen or ceiling
Between our heads and the Infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall
In the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins.
The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of Spiritual
Nature, to the attributes of God: justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power.

St Paul ~ Rush (Geddy Lee, AlexLifeson & Neil Peart) ...Subdivisions ~ Jacob Moon

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind...

Morris L. West 1916-1999 ~ John Barry 1933- & Leslie Bricusse 1931- ...You Only Live Twice ~ Nancy Sinatra 1940-

It costs so much to be a full humanbeing there are very few who
Have the enlightenment or the courage to pay the price...
One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach
Out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace
The world like a lover and yet demand no easy return of love.
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence.
One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.
One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total
Acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Goethe 1749-1832 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Things Have Changed

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Aesop 620-564BC ~ Peter Green 1946- ...The Green Manalishi

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Lao Tzu 604-521BC ~ Townes Van Zandt 1944-1997 ...High, Low And In Between

The highest form of goodness is like water. Water knows
How to benefit all things without striving with them...
In choosing your dwelling, know how to keep to the ground.
In cultivating your mind, know how to dive in the hidden deeps.

Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952 ~ Cab Calloway 1907-1994 ...Minnie The Moocher

What has life or death to do with Light?
In the image of My Light I have made you.
The relativities of life and death belong to the cosmic dream.
Behold your dreamless being! Awake, my child, awake!

Gandhi 1869-1948 ~ Iris Dement 1961- ...Sweet Is The Melody

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.

Hildegarde of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Blue Rodeo (Greg Keelor 1954- ...Black Ribbon

Fire of the Spirit, life of the lives of creatures, spiral of sanctity, bond of all natures,
Glow of charity, lights of clarity, taste of sweetness to the fallen, be with us and hear us.

Rollo May 1909-1994 ~ Ed Cobb 1938-1999 (The Standells) ...Dirty Water

Creativity arises out of the tension between
Spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks)
Forcing the spontaneity into the various forms
Which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Jacob Boehme 1575-1624 ~ Cole Porter 1891-1964 ...Don't Fence Me In ~ David Byrne 1952-

As the many kinds of flowers grow in the earth near each other
And none contends with the other about the color, smell or taste,
But they let the earth and the sun, rain and wind, heat and cold,
Do what they will with them, while they grow each according
To its own nature, so it is with the children of God.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Jose Carlos Burle 1910-1983 & Will Holt 1929- ...Lemon Tree ~ Thievery Corporation & Herb Alpert 1935-

Be still my heart, those great trees are prayers.

Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952 ~ Steely Dan (Donald Fagen 1948- & Walter Becker 1950-) ...Chain Lightning

You are That in which is rooted everything in the universe.

Ludwig van Beethovan 1770-1827 ~ Marvin Gaye 1939-1984 ...Trouble Man

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the electric soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

St Paul ~ Burt Bacharach 1928- & Hal David 1921- ...Don't Make Me Over ~ Cal Tjader 1925-1982

We are God's work of art.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Blossom Dearie 1924-2009 ...Blossom's Blues

The leaf becomes flower when it loves.
The flower becomes fruit when it worships.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein ~ It Might As Well Be Spring ~ Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto

Spring...a natural resurrection...an experience of immortality

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 ~ Traffic (Steve Winwood 1948- & Jim Capoldi 1944-2005) ...Paper Sun

Every second is of infinite value.

Ernest Holmes 1887-1960 ~ Spirit (Jay Ferguson 1947- ) ...Fresh Garbage

Out of any chaos we can produce harmony.

Lao Tzu 604-521BC ~ The Beatles (George Harrison 1943- 2001) ...Within You Without You

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things
And makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983 ~ The Kinks (Ray Davies 1944- ) ...Superman

Don't fight forces; use them.

John Addington Symonds 1840-1893 ~ Ten Years After (Alvin Lee 1944- ) ...Here They Come

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.