Aristophanes 446-386 BC ~ Christine McVie 1943- ...Songbird ~ Eva Cassidy 1963-1996

Hear us, you who are no more than leaves always falling,
You mortals benighted by nature, you enfeebled and powerless
Creatures of earth always haunting a world of mere shadows,
Entities without wings, insubstantial as dreams,
You ephemeral things, you human beings:
Turn your minds to our words, our etherial words,
For the words of the birds last forever!

Jacob Boehme 1575-1624 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Jokerman

Thou must know that this world in its innermost
Unfolds its properties and powers in union with
The heaven aloft above us; and so there is
One Heart, one Being, one Will, one God, all in all.
The outermost moving of this world cannot comprehend
The outermost moving of heaven aloft above this world,
For they are one to the other as life and death,
Or as a man and a stone are one to the other.

Henry William Channing 1810-1884 ~ Van Morrison 1945- ...Did Ye Get Healed?

To live content with small means; to seek elegance
Rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion;
To be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich;
To listen to stars and birds, babes and sages,
With open heart; to study hard, to think quietly,
Act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
Grow up through the common -- this is to be my symphony.