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)?...

Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952 ~ John Lennon 1940-1980... Instant Karma

The body melts into the universe.
The universe melts into the soundless voice.
The sound melts into the all-shining light.
And the light enters the bosom of infinite joy.

Rev. Jesse Jackson ~ Paul Simon 1941- ...Loves Me Like A Rock: w/ Stevie Wonder 1950- ~ Ira Tucker 1925- & The Dixie Hummingbirds est 1928

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Laozi (aka Lao-tzu) 4th - 6th cent ? ~ Efterklang est 2001: M.Bravier-C.Clausen-T.Husmere-R.Molgaard-R.Stolberg et al...Mirador

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Helen Keller 1880-1968 ~ Katie Melua 1984- ... I Cried For You

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.

The Torah ~ Thievery Corporation est 1995 (Rob Garza & Eric Hilton) ...Richest Man In Babylon

Deeds of giving are the very foundation of the world.

Billie Holiday 1915-1959 & Arthur Herzog Jr 1927-1983...God Bless The Child: Jonathan Russell 1995- (Mark Shane-Ed Polcer-Herman Burney-Joe Ascione)

Them that's got shall get - them that's not shall lose...

Tyron Edwards 1809-1894 ~ David Clayton Thomas + Blood Sweat And Tears (1970 incarnation)...And When I Die

One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf
teaches is this: do your work well and then be
ready to depart when God shall call.

Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 ~ Elvis Costello (And The Attractions) 1954- with Daryl Hall ~ The Only Flame In Town

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Ruth Rendell 1930- ~ Stephen Sondheim 1930- ~ Van Morrison 1943- ~ Chet Baker 1929-1988 ~ Send In The Clowns

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live -
It is asking others to live as one wishes to live...

Proverbs 25:11 ~ Greg Lake (Emerson Lake & Palmer) 1947- ~ Joni Mitchell 1945- ~ Still...You Turn Me On/You Turn Me On,I'm A Radio

Like golden apples in silver settings are words spoken at the proper time.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 ~ George Harrison 1943-2001 Bangladesh & If Not For You (with Bob Dylan 1941- )

A human being is part of the whole, called by us the Universe.
A part limited in time and space. He experiences himself,
his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest,
a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion
is part of a prison for us, restricting us to our personal
desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our
task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening
our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures.

e.e. cummings 1894-1962 ~ Harry Warren 1893-1981 & Al Dubin 1891-1945 ~ Jamie Cullum 1979- ....I Only Have Eyes For You

your slightest look easily will unclose
me though i have closed myself as
fingers you open always petal by petal
myself as spring opens touching
skillfully mysteriously her first rose

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 ~ Dennis Leary 1957- .... I'm An Asshole

Kind hearts are the garden; kind thoughts are the roots
Kind words are the blossoms; kind deeds are the fruits
Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds
Fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds.

Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855 ~ Livingston & Evans (Jay 1915-2001 & Ray 1915-2007) ~ Doris Day 1924- ...... Que Sera Sera

Life must be lived forward but can only be understood backwards.

Robert Frost 1874-1963 ~ Great Lake Swimmers ~ (Tony Dekker) - Your Rocky Spine

Nature is always hinting at us...

Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961 ~ Leiber and Stoller (Jerry 1933- & Mike 1933- ) ~ Peggy Lee 1920-2002.... Is That All There Is

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny
But what we put into it is ours...

Psalm 19:14 ~ Jimmy Cliff 1948- ~ Many Rivers To Cross

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

T.S. Elliot 1888-1965 ~ The Hollow Men / Kate Havnevik 1975- ~ Unlike Me

...Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the shadow
Life is very long...

Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 ~ Eric Burden 1941- (and the Animals) - Sky Pilot

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

Stephen Foster 1826-1864 ~ Beautiful Dreamer

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee;
Sounds of the rude world, heard in the day,
Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away!
Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody;
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng,
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

Beautiful dreamer, out on the sea
Mermaids are chanting the wild lorelie;
Over the streamlet vapors are borne,
Waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.
Beautiful dreamer, beam on my heart,
E'en as the morn on the streamlet and sea;
Then will all clouds of sorrow depart,
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me!

Victor Hugo 1802-1885 ~ Paul McCartney 1942- / Seals and Croft (Jim 1941- & Dash 1940-) ...... Bluebird ~ Blackbird ~ Hummingbird

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile
on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her,
and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.





Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile
on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her,
and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 ~ The Everly Brothers (Don 1937- & Phil 1939-) / Damien Rice 1973- & Lisa Harrigan ?- / Amy Winehouse 1983-

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of...





The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of...

Leigh Harline 1907-1969/Ned Washington 1901-1976 When You Wish Upon A Star ~ Cliff Edwards 1895-1971

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do

Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true

Nadezhda Mandelstam 1899-1980 ~ The Dixie Hummingbirds est.1928- / John Lennon 1940-1980 Our Prayer For Peace ~ Give Peace A Chance

Silence is the real crime against Humanity...




Silence is the real crime against Humanity...

Nina Simone 1933-2003 / David Bowie 1947-

Wild Is The Wind...

Ned Washington 1901-1976 / Dimitri Tiomkin 1894-1979 Wild Is The Wind

Love me, love me, love me, say you do
Let me fly away with you
For my love is like the wind, and wild is the wind
Wild is the wind
Give me more than one caress, satisfy this hungriness
Let the wind blow through your heart
For wild is the wind, wild is the wind
Chorus
You touch me, I hear the sound of mandolins
You kiss me
With your kiss my life begins
You're Spring to me, all things to me
Don't you know, you're life itself!
Like the leaf that clings to the tree,
Oh, my darling, cling to me
For we're like creatures of the wind, and wild is the wind
And wild is the wind
Chorus
Like the leaf that clings to the tree,
Oh, my darling, cling to me
For we're like creatures in the wind, and wild is the wind
Wild is the wind (4X)

Michael Angelo 1475-1564

I see an angel in a block of stone
And carve to set it free...




I see an angel in a block of stone
And carve to set it free...

Claudio Naranjo 1932-

We are...a part of the cosmos,
a tide in the ocean of life,
a chain in the network of
processes that donot either
begin or end within the
enclosure of our skins.

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

The artist is a receptacle
for emotions that come
from all over the place,
from the sky, from the earth,
from a scrap of paper,
from a passing stranger,
from a spider's web...

Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936

Words are the most powerful drug used by Mankind...

Heinrich Heine 1797-1856

Like a great poet, Nature knows
how to produce the greatest effects
with the most limited means.

Marie Curie 1867-1934

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

Angelus Silesius 1624-1677

The bird is in the air;
The stone lies on the land
The fish lives in the water;
My spirit in God's hand.

William Wordsworth 1770-1850

Our birth is but a sleep
And a forgetting:
The soul that rises with us,
Our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness...

Horace Mann 1796-1859

Lost: Yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset,
two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes.
No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

Walt Whitman 1819-1892

I dream in my dream all the dreams
of the other dreamers
And I become the other dreamers

Carl Jung 1875-1961

We meet ourselves
Time and again
In a thousand disguises
On the path of life...

The Mystery - Van Morrison 1945-

Let go into the mystery
Let yourself go
You've got to open up your heart
That's all I know
Trust what I say and do
What you're told Baby
And all your dirt
Will turn into gold

Let go into the mystery
Let yourself go
And when you open up your heart
You get everything you need Baby
There's a way and a mystic road
You've got to
Have some faith to carry on

You've got to open your heart to the sun
You know he's looking out for you
'Cause he's the one

Let go into the mystery
Let yourself go
There is no other place to be Baby
This I know
You've got to dance and sing
And be alive in the mystery
And be joyous and give thanks
And your let yourself go

I saw the light of Ancient Greece
Towards the One
I saw us standing within
Reach of the sun
Let go into the mystery of Life
Let go into the mystery
Let go into the mystery
Let yourself go

You've got to
Open your arms to the sun
You know you've got so many charms
It's just begun
Trust what I say and do
What your told
And surely all your dirt
Will turn into gold

Bertrand Russell 1872-1970

Three passions, simple but
overwhelmingly strong, have
governed my life: the longing
for love, the search for
knowledge, and unbearable pity
for the suffering of mankind.

Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841-1935

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The word is not a crystal,
transparent and unchanging,
it is the skin of a living thought
and may vary greatly in colour and content
according to the circumstances and
time in which it is used.
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Every idea is an incitement.
It offers itself for a belief and,
if believed, it is acted on
unless some other belief outweighs it,
or some failure of energy
stifles the movements at its birth.

Rachel Carson 1907-1964

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 antidiote
against boredom and disenchantment of later years,
the sterile preoccupation with
things that are artificial,
the alienation from the sources of our strength.
(A Wish For Children)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832

We must always change,
Renew, rejuvenate ourselves;
Otherwise we harden.

Elizabeth Smart 1913-1986

It is written. Nothing can escape.
Floating through the waves with seaweed in my hair,
or being washed up battered on the inaccessible rocks,
cannot undo the event to which
there were never any alternatives.
O lucky Daphne, motionless and green
to avoid the touch of God!
Lucky Syrinx, who chose a legend
instead of too much blood.
For me there was no choice.
There were no crossroads at all.

Teilhard De Chardin 1881-1955

Some day, after mastering

The winds, the waves,

The tides, and gravity,

We shall harness for God

The energies of love,

And then, for a second time,

In the history of the world,

Man will have discovered fire.

Marcus Aurelius 121-180

......................The Universe is transformation; our life is what are thoughts make it

Let Us Have Faith - Helen Keller 1880-1968

Security is mostly a superstition.

It doesnot exist in nature,

Nor do the children of men

As a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer

In the long run

Than outright exposure.

Life is either a daring adventure,

Or nothing.

To keep our faces toward change

And behave like free spirits

In the presence of fate

Is strength undefeatable.

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Helen Keller and Charlie Chaplin

Albert Einstein -1879-1955

Dear Posterity,
If you have not become
more just, more peaceful,
and generally more rational
than we are (or were) - why then,
the Devil take you.
Having, with all respect,
given utterance to this pious wish,
I am (or was)
Your,
Albert Einstein

A Psalm Of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life us but an empty dream! -

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,

Is our destined end or way;

but to act, that each tomorrow find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,

And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still like muffled drums, are beating

Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broadfield of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,

Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act - act in the living Present!

Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints that perhaps another,

Sailing o'er life's solemn main,

A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart agin.

Let us, then, be up and doing

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait.

The Pains Of Sleep - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834

Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
It hath not been my use to pray,
With moving lips or bended knees
But silently, by slow degrees;
My spirit I to love compose
In humble trust mine eye-lids close,
With reverential resignation,
No wish conceived, no thought exprest,
Only a sense of supplication;
A sense o'er all my soul imprest
That I am weak, yet not unblest,
Since in me, round me, every where
Eternal Strength and Wisdom are.

But yester-night I prayed aloud
In anguish and in agony,
Up-starting from the fiendish crowd
Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me:
A lurid light, a trampling throng,
Sense of intolerable wrong,
And whom I scorned, those only strong!
Thirst of revenge, the powerless will
Still baffled and yet burning still!
Desire with loathing strangely mixed
On wild or hateful objects fixed.
Fantastic passions! maddening brawl!
And shame and terror over all!
Deeds to be hid which were not hid,
Which all confused I could not know
Whether I suffered or I did:
For all seemed guilt, remorse or woe,
My own or others still the same
Life-stifling fear, soul-stifling shame.
So two nights passed, the night's
dismay saddened and
Stunned the coming day.
Sleep, the wide blessing, seemed to me
Distemper's worse calamity.
Scream had waked me
From the fiendish dream,
O'ercome with sufferings strange and
Wild, I wept as I had been a child;
And having thus my tears subdued
My anguish to a milder mood,
Such punishments, I said, were due
To natures deepliest stained with sin,--
For aye entempesting anew
The unfathomable hell within,
The horrors of their deeds to view,
To know and loathe, yet wish and do!
Such griefs with such men well agree,
But wherefore, wherefore fall on me?
To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love, I love indeed.
..................................................................Sleeping Smoker - Salvador Dali 1904-1989

Anthem - Leonard Norman Cohen 1934-

The birds they sang at the break of day
Start again I heard them say
Don't dwell on what has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will be fought again
The holy dove She will be caught again
bought and sold and bought again
the dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring...
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

We asked for signs the signs were sent
the birth betrayed the marriage spent
yeah the widowhood of every government...
signs for all to see.

I can't run no more with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud and they're going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring...

You can add up the parts but you wont have the sum
You can strike up the march, there is no drum
Every heart, every heart to love will come
but like a refugee.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

Ring the bells that stil can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.

Hildegarde of Bingen 1098-1179

Without the word of God,

no creature has meaning.

God's word is in all

creation, visible and invisible.

The word is living, being spirit,

all verdant greening, all

creativity. This word

manifests in every creature.

Now this is how the spirit

is in the flesh; the word

is indivisible from God.

Willliam Blake 1786-1866

To see a world in

a grain of sand

and heaven

in a wildflower;

hold infinity

in the palm

of your hand

and eternity

in an hour.

William James 1842-1944

Our lives are like
islands in the sea or
like trees in the forest
which co-mingle
their roots in the
darkness underground.

Meister Eckhart 1260-1328

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was: "Thank-you" - that would suffice...
(Canadian Thanksgiving Day)

Ring Them Bells - Robert Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan) 1941-

Ring them bells ye heathen from the city that dreams
Ring them bells from the sanctuaries cross the valleys and streams
For they're deep and they're wide and the world on its side
And time is running backwards and so is the bride.

Ring them bells Saint Peter where the four winds blow
Ring them bells with an ironhand so the people will know
Oh it's rush hour now on the wheel and the plow
And the sun is going down upon the sacred cow.

Ring them bells Sweet Martha for the poor man's son
Ring them bells so the world will know that God is one
Oh the shephard is asleep where the willows weep
And the mountains are filled with lost sheep

Ring them bells for the blind and deaf
Ring them bells for all of us who are left - Ring them bells for the chosen few
Who will judge the many when the game is through
Ring them bells for the time that flies for the child that cries when innocence dies.

Ring them bells Saint Catherine from the top of the room
Ring them from the fortress for the lilies that bloom
Oh the lines are long and the fighting is strong
Oh they're breaking down the distance between right and wrong.

The Waking - Theodore Roetke 1908 - 1963

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I cannot go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree, but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Pericles and Aspasia - Walter Savage Landor 1775-1864

Do what your heart tells you, yes, do ALL it tells you.

Remember how august it is.

It contains the temple, not only of Love

But of conscience; and a whisper is heard

From the extremity of one
To the extremity of the other...

Bend in pensiveness, even in sorrow,

On that flowery bank of youth,
Where under runs the stream that passes irreversibly!
Let the garland drop into it,

Let the hand be refreshed by it - but -

May the beautiful feet of Aspasia stand firm...

(the letter of Pericles to Aspasia in reply to her

request to be permitted to visit Xeniades)

Henry David Thoreau - 1817-1862

To effect
the quality
of the day
is the highest
of the arts...

The Bohemian Hymn - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882

In many forms we try to

utter God's infinity

But the boundless hath no form
And the Universal friend
Doth as far transcend

An angel as a worm.
The great Idea baffles wit
Language falters under it.
It leaves the learned

in the lurch. Nor art,

nor power, nor toil

can find the measure

of the eternal mind
Nor hymn, nor prayer

nor church.

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supernova remnant

Cassiopeia A (aka Cass A)

My Symphony - William Henry Channing 1810-1884

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;
to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely; in a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
This is to be my symphony.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962

The big question before our people today is whether we are to more material in our thinking, judging administrative success by its economic results entirely and leaving out all other achievements. History shows that a nation interested primarily in material things invariably is on a downward path. Great wealth has ruined every nation since the day Cheops laid the cornerstone of the Great Pyramid, not because of any inherant wrong in wealth, but because it became the ideal and idol of the people.

Phoenicia, Carthage, Greece, Rome, Spain all bear witness to this truth.

Simple Gifts - Joseph Brackett Jr 1797-1882

'Tis the gift to be simple, tis the gift to be free

'Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be

And when we find ourselves in the place just right

'Twill be in the valley of love and delight

--------REFRAIN--------

When true simplicity is gained

To bow and to bend we shan't be ashamed

To turn, turn will be our delight

'Til by turning, turning we come round right

'Tis the gift to be loved and that love to return

'Tis the gift to be taught and a richer gift to learn

And when we expect of others what we try to live each day

Then we'll all live together and we'll all learn to say

--------REFRAIN--------

'Tis the gift to have friends and a true friend to be

'Tis the gift to think of others not only think of me

And when we hear what others really think and feel

Then we'll all live together with a love that is real

(A Shaker Hymn)

The Over-Soul - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882

We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles.
Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence;
the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related,
the eternal One. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude
is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour,
but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle,
the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece,
as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole,
of which these are shining parts, is the Soul.
(Self-Reliance)

In Tune With The Infinite - Ralph Waldo Trine 1866-1958

Everyday is a fresh beginning, everyday is the world made new
You who are weary of sorrow and sinning
Here is a beautiful hope for you, a hope for me and a hope for you.
All the past things are past and over, the tasks are done and the tears are shed
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover yesterday's wounds which smarted and bled
Are healed with the healing which night has shed.
Let them go, since we cannot relieve them, cannot undo and cannot atone.
God in His mercy receive, forgive them! Only the new days are our own.
Here are the skies all burnished brightly, here is the spent earth all reborn;
Here are the tired limbs springing lightly to face the sun and to share with the morn
In the chrism of dew and the cool of dawn.
Everyday is a fresh beginning, listen my soul, to the glad refrain
And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning and puzzles forecasted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day and begin again.

Desiderata - Max Ehrmann 1872-1945

Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bittter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business afairs;
for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is.
Many persons strive for high ideals and everywhere life is ful of heroism. Be yourself. Especially donot
feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment; it is as
perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But donot distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and lonliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the Universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here and whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore, be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive him to be and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life
keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

The Two Trees - William Butler Yeats 1865-1939

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.
The changing colours of its fruit
Have dowered the stars with metry light
The surety of its hidden root
Has planted quiet in the night;
The shaking of its leafy head
Has given the waves their melody,
And made my lips and music wed,
Murmuring a wizard song for thee.
There the Joves a circle go,
The flaming circle of our days,
Gyring, spiring to and fro
In those great ignorant leafy ways;
Remembering all that shaken hair
And how the winged sandals dart,
Thine eyes grow full of tender care
Beloved, gaze in thine own heart.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.
The demons, with their subtle guile,
Lift up before us when they pass,
Or only gaze a little while;
For there a fatal image grows
That the stormy night receives;
Roots half hidden under snows,
Broken boughs and blackened leaves.
For all things turn to barrenness
Inthe dim glass the demons hold,
The glass of our outer weariness,
Made when God slept in times of old.
There through the broken branches, go
The ravens of unresting thought;
Flying, crying, to and fro,
Cruel claw and hungry throat,
Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
And shake their ragged wings; alas!
Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
Gaze no more in the bitter glass.
......................................Tree of Forgiveness - Edward Coley Burne-Jones
....................................................................1833-1898