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.