Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944 ~ Van Morrison 1945- ...Beside You

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but
In looking outward together in the same direction.

Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890 ~ Stevie Wonder 1950... As

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1823-1884 ~ Aimee Mann 1960- ...Nothing Is Good Enough

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud.
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge
As the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end,
Though you can render no reason.

Catherine Of Siena 1347-1380 ~ Harry Nilsson 1941-1994 ...Early In The Morning

In the evening of this life we will be judged on love.

John Joseph Lewis ~ Neko Case 1970- ...Lonely Old Lies

The only stand I ever concretely take is either for the truth
Or the pursuit of truth wherever that path may lie.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Crowded House (Neil 1958- & Tim 1952- ) ...Weather With You

To fundamentally affect the quality of each day, that is the highest of the arts.

Jacob Boehme 1575-1624 ~ Steely Dan (Walter Becker 1950- & Donald Fagen 1948- ) ...Only A Fool Would Say That

The mortal body is but a husk from which the new body grows, as it is with a grain of wheat.
Behold the mystery of the earth: as that brings forth so must thou bring forth.
Man's child is the soul which is born in the astral moving from the flesh
And the earth's child is the grass, the herbs, the trees.
Out of the earth silver, gold and all manner of ore came to be
In the deep above the earth sprang the wonderful forming of power and virtue.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ~ Cat Power 1972- ...Metal Heart

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
And have not charity, I am become as
Sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Emily Bronte 1818-1848 ~ Irving Mills (aka Joe Primrose) 1894-1985 ...Saint James Infirmary ~ Dixieland Crackerjacks

With wide-embracing love
Thy spirit animates eternal years
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves,
Creates and rears...

Martin Buber 1878-1965 ~ The Tragically Hip (Gord Downie 1964- ) ...The Last Recluse

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly,
God is the electricity that surges between them.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Delroy Wilson 1948-1995 ...Better Must Come

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently
In the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex,
And solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Martin Luther King Jr 1929-1968 ~ Thievery Corporation ...Marching The Hate Machines

Our scientific power has outstripped our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ~ The Ross Sisters ...Solid Potato Salad

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment
And drink your wine with a merry heart.

Claudio Naranjo 1932- ~ Cymande ...Dove

We are...a part of the cosmos, a tide in the ocean of life,
A chain in the network of processes that do not either
Begin or end within the enclosure of our skins.

Chinese Proverb ~ Liquid Liquid ...Cavern

If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -
Go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you
Want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.

Violeta Parra 1917-1967 ...Gracias A La Vida (Thanks To Life)

Thanks to life, which has given me so much. It gave me two beams of light,
That when opened, can perfectly distinguish black from white,
And in the sky above, her starry backdrop, and from within the multitude
The one that I love. Thanks to life, which has given me so much.
It gave me an ear that, in all of its width records night and day
Crickets and canaries, hammers and turbines and bricks and storms
And the tender voice of my beloved. Thanks to life, which has given me so much.
It gave me sound and the alphabet. With them the words that I think and declare:
"Mother," "Friend," "Brother" and the Light shining. The root of the soul from
Which comes love. Thanks to life, which has given me so much.
It gave me the ability to walk with my tired feet. With them I have
Traversed cities and puddles, valleys and deserts, mountains and plains
And your house, your street and your patio. Thanks to life
Which has given me so much. It gave me a heart
That causes my frame to shudder when I see the fruit of the human brain,
When I see good so far from bad, when I see within the clarity of your eyes.
Thanks to life, which has given me so much. It gave me laughter
And it gave me longing. With them I distinguish happiness and pain
The two materials from which my songs are formed, and your song as well,
Which is the same song. And everyone's song, which is my very song.

Rumi 1207-1273 ~ Jackson, Miner & Smith ...Higher and Higher ~ Jimmy Cliff 1948-

Love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1823-1884 ~ Keith Richards 1943- & Mick Jagger 1943- ...Wild Horses ~ Susan Boyle 1961- & Fantasia

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet,
But stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men...
There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms;
And day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist
In necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by the
Virtue of preceding affections, in the world of spirit...the visible
Creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Hildegarde of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Sly And The Family Stone (Sly Stone 1943- ) ...Trip To Your Heart

...Oh sweet taste in our bodies and infusion in our hearts of the fragrance of all virtues...

Leigh Hunt 1784-1859 ~ OK Go ...This Too Shall Pass

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering,
How we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion,
From one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Moby 1965- ...In This World

Power said to the world "You are mine". The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world "I am thine". The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Joe Miller ~ Tim Rice 1944- & Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948- ...Everything's Alright

The manifested Universe is the keyboard upon which the Master
Artist of spiritual reality plays a symphonic arrangement of life.