Ardis Whitman 1905-1990 ~ Scatman John (John Paul Larkin) 1942-1999 ...Scatman's World

To reach out in total response to life's treasures, we need Spring in our hearts.

Leo Buscaglia 1924-1998 ~ The Beatles (John Lennon 1940-1980)...Real Love

Real love always creates; it never destroys.
In this lies man's only promise.

Hildegard of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Marvin Gaye 1939-1984 ...Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

Buddha 563-483 BC ~ Justin Rutledge 1979- ... Alberta Breeze

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.

Ralph Waldo Trine 1866-1958 ~ Shawn Phillips 1943- ...Looking Up

Let there be many windows in your soul,
that all the glory of the Universe may beautify it...

Henri Matisse 1869-1954 ~ Remy Shand 1978- ...The Mind's Eye

I donot paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

Mother Charleszetta Waddles 1912-2001 ~ The O'Jays ...For The Love Of Money

For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be. God knows no distance.

Carl Jung 1875-1961 ~ Morphine (Mark Sandman 1952-1999) ...You Speak My Language / Honey White

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic
be alcohol, morphine or idealism.
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Jean Cocteau 1889-1963 ~ Steve Winwood 1948- ...Valerie

The poet is a liar who always tells the truth.

Euripedes 480–406 BC ~ Blue Rodeo (Greg Keelor 1954- & Jim Cuddy 1955-) ...Trust Yourself

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1879-1958 ~ Esthero 1978- ...Fastlane

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ John Hiatt 1952- ...The River Knows Your Name

Be true to your work, your word and your friend.

Omar Khayyam 1048-1122 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Love Sick

Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire!
Would not we shatter it to bits - and then
Remold it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ John Wesley Routh ...Shores Of White Sand ~ Emmy Lou Harris 1947-

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

William Blake 1757-1827 ~ Katie Melua 1984- ...Shy Boy

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.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ John Prine 1946- ...Bruised Orange

I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high, between the horse's path
and the wheel-track. An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate,
or an inch higher; and yet it lived to flourish as much as if it had a thousand
acres of untrodden space around it, and never knew the danger it occurred. It
did not borrow trouble, nor invite an evil fate by apprehending it.

Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 ~ Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) 1948- ...The Wind

Of all the sounds despatched abroad there's not a charge to me
Like that old measure in the boughs that phraseless melody
The wind does working like a hand whose fingers comb the sky,
Then quiver down with tufts of tune permitted gods and me.
When winds go round and round in bands and thrum upon the door,
And birds take places overhead to bear them orchestra,
I crave him grace of summer boughs if such an outcast be,
He never heard the fleshless chant rise solemn in the tree,
As if some caravan of sound on deserts in the sky,
Had broken rank then knit and passed in seamless company.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Daniel Lanois 1951- ...Here Is What Is

For flowers that bloom about our feet; for song of bird and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank thee!
For blue of stream and blue of sky; for pleasant shade of branches high;
For fragrant air and cooling breeze; for beauty of the blooming trees,
Father in heaven we thank thee! For mother-love and father-care,
For brothers strong and sisters fair; for love at home and here each day;
For guidance lest we go astray, Father in heaven, we thank thee!
For this new morning with its light; for rest and shelter of the night;
For health and food, for love and friends; for everything his goodness sends,
Father in heaven, we thank thee!

Epicharmus 540-450ish BC ~ Jerry Garcia 1942-1995 & The Grateful Dead ...Eyes Of The World

It is the understanding that sees and hears.
It is the understanding that improves everything.

Robert Louis Stevenson 1859-1894 ~ Toy Caldwell 1947-1993 (Marshall Tucker Band) ...Can't You See : Matt Minglewood 1947-

That man is a sucess who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect
of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem,
or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it;
who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

George Fox 1624-1691 ~ Neko Case 1970- ...Hold On, Hold On

Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit from thy own thoughts
and then thou wilt feel the principle of God to turn thy mind...
thou wilt receive his strength and power from whence life comes
to allay all tempests, against blusterings and storms.

Anna Quindlen 1952- ~ Bjork 1965- & Thom Yorke 1968- ...I've Seen It All

Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about these things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over the water or the way a baby scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a cherry with her thumb and first finger. Get a life in which you are not alone, Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love isnot leisure: it is work. Get a life in which you are generous. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money you would have spent on beer and give it to charity.
Work in a Soup Kitchen. Be a big brother or sister. Everyone wants to do well. But if you donot do good too, then doing well will never be enough. It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many years ago. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the World and try to give some of it back because I believed in it,
completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this: consider the lilies of the field. Eat in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.

Philippians 4:8 ~ Stevie Wonder 1950- ...I Believe (When I Fall In Love)

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Berthold Auerbach 1912-1882 ~ Enigma ...Return To Innocence

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts
and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 ~ Neil Young 1945- ...Love Is A Rose

A rose is a rose is a rose...

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ David Mallett 1949- ...The Garden Song

Though I don't believe that a plant will spring up
where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed.
Convince me that you have a seed there and
I am prepared to expect wonders.

William Wordsworth 1770-1850 ~ Stan Rogers 1949-1983 ...Barrett's Privateers & Mary Ellen Carter

Though nothing can bring back the hour of
splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower,
we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Sir Winston Churchhill 1874-1965 ~ Ian Tyson 1933- ...Four Strong Winds - The Brothers Four

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it...

Carl Jung 1875-1961 ~ Emiliana Torrini 1977- ...Sunny Road

To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.

Confucious 551-479 BC ~ Thievery Corporation & Notch ...Amerimacka

Outrageous glory isnot in never falling
but in rising everytime we fail.

Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 ~ Esthero 1978- ...Everyday's A Holiday (With You) & My Torture

It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas
or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life
which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight,
with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.

CCHS Coach-Teacher William Haye's 1934-1978 Motto ~ Buddy Rich 1917-1987 & The Muppets

Begrudge the thoughts of concession for they sow the seeds of defeat.
Allow indomitable effort and obsession; there shall be nothing
your spirit can't beat...

Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860 ~ Carole King 1942- ...Tapestry

Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which
everyone in the first half of his time comes to see the top side;
but in the second half, the reverse side. The latter is not
so beautiful, but it is more instructive because it enables
one to see how the threads are connected together.

Pythagoras 575ish - 495ish BC ~ Outlaw Social's Dry Bones Party & Delta Rythm Boys ...Dry Bones Spiritual

None can be free who is a slave to his passions.

Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992 ~ Grateful Dead. ..BirdSong

It is probable that in the artistical hierarchy, birds are the greatest
musicians existing on our planet.

2 Corinthians 9:6 ~ Stompin' Tom Connors 1936- ...Tilsonburg

He which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

Emanuel Swedenborg 1688-1772 ~ Rory Gallagher 1948-1995 ...Hands Off

Love consists in desiring to give what is
one's own to another, to feel the joy of
another as joy in oneself - that is loving.

Edgar Allen Poe 1809-1849 ~ Robin Trower 1945- & James Dewar 1942-2002 ...Daydream

Take this kiss upon the brow and in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow - you are not wrong, who deem that
my days have been a dream; yet if hope has flown away
in a night, or in a day, in a vision, or in none,
is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926 ~ David Bowie 1947- ...Changes

Otherwise this stone...would not from all borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place that doesnot see you.
You must change your life...

Walt Whitman 1819-1892 ~ Frank Zappa 1940-1993 ...Bamboozled By Love

I contradict myself?
So, I contradict myself!
I am infinite.
I contain multitudes.

William Butler Yeats 1865-1939 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Sara

I shall find the dark grow luminous, the void fruitful when
I understand I have nothing, that the ringers in the tower
have appointed for the hymen of the soul a passing bell.

C.G. Jung 1893-1956 ~ Danny Michel 1970- ...If God's On Your Side

One doesnot become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.

Julian Norwich 1342-1416 ~ John Hiatt 1952 ... Slow Turning

As the body is clothed in cloth
and the muscles in the skin
and the bones in the muscles
and the heart in the chest,
so are we, body and soul,
clothed in the Goodness of God
and enclosed.

St John of the Cross 1542-1591 ~ Fred Eaglesmith 1957- ...Get On Your Knees & Pray

There in the lucky dark,
none to observe me, darkness far and wide;
no sign for me to mark,
no other light, no guide except for my heart -
the fire, the fire inside!

George Moore 1852-1933 ~ Crow & Spooky Tooth ...Evil Woman

Did I love thee? I only did desire to
hold thy body unto mine and smite it with
the strange fire of kisses burning as a wine!

Piero Ferruci ~ Homer Banks-Carl Hampton-Ray Jackson & Faithless ...If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want To Be Right) ~ Millie Jackson ~ Faithless

To be faithful to another - whether a
person, principle or divinity - means being
faithful to oneself, transparent to oneself.

Bhagavad Gita ~ David Bowie 1947- ...Strangers When We Meet

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the
right person at the right time and at the right place,
and when we expect nothing in return...And a gift given
to the wrong person, at the wrong time and the wrong place,
or a gift which comes not from the heart...is a gift of darkness.

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892-1950 ~ Saint Sarah (Sara the Black) & Gypsy Festival @ Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light!

Ernest Holmes 1887-1960 ~ Janis Ian 1951- ...When The Party's Over

In all probability, there is a body within a body to infinity.

Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1910 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ... Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) ~ Jerry Garcia 1942-1995

A discontented, discordant mortal is no more a man
than discord is music. A picture in the camera or a
face reflected in the mirror is not the original,
though resembling it. Man, in the likeness of his Maker,
reflects the central light of being, the invisible God.
As there is no corporeality in the mirrored form, which
is but a reflection, so man, like all things real, reflects
God, his divine Principle, not in a mortal body.

W. MacNeile Dixon 1866-1946 ~ Bruce Cockburn 1945- ...Child Of The Wind

It is not the lofty sails but the unseen wind that moves the ship.

Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 ~ Hawksley Workman (aka Ryan Corrigan)1975- ...Don't Be Crushed

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death,
initial of creation and the exponent of breath.

Henry David Thoreau 1803-1852 ~ Ian Dury 1942-2000 (and The Blockheads) Hit Me With Your Rythm Stick

If a man doesnot keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

Unknown ?-? ~ Justin Rutledge 1978- ...The Suffering Of Pepe O'Malley (Part III)

If we could resurrect the dead; what could we offer
that Life itself had not already offered, and continues
to offer, in full measure?

St Paul ?-67 AD - Ephesians 3:17-19 ~ John Prine 1946- ...Hello In There ~ Natalie Merchant 1963- Michael Stipes 1960- Billy Bragg 1957-

...That ye, being rooted and grounded in love may be able
to comprehend with all saints what is the BREADTH and
LENGTH and DEPTH and HEIGHT...

Galileo 1564-1642 & Victor Hugo 1802-1885 (seance conversation) ~ Robert Lam 1944 ...Does Anbody Really Know What Time It Is? ~ Chicago

You know what I would do if I were in your place?
I'd drink from the milk basin of the Milky Way; I'd swallow comets;
I'd lunch on dawn; I'd dine on day and I'd sup on night;
I'd invite myself, splendid table-companion that I am,
to the banquet of all the glories, and I'd salute God as my host!
I'd work up a magnificent hunger, an enormous thirst, and I'd race
through the drunken spaces between the spheres singing the
fearsome drinking song of eternity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Arthur Reynolds ?- ... Jesus Is Just Alright ~ The Doobie Brothers

The secret of culture is to learn that a few great points steadily reappear,
alike in the poverty of the obscurest farm and in the miscellany of
metropolitan life, and that these few are alone to be regarded -
the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are, and love of
what is simple and beautiful; independence and cheerful relation, these are the essentials -
these, and the wish to serve, to add somewhat to the well-being of men.

Euripides 480-406 BC ~ Elton John 1947- & Bernie Taupin 1950...Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the chanting of the Muses; I have been
versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger
than anything I have known.

furneral for a friend/love lies bleeding

Dante 1265-1321 ~ Procol Harum ...A Whiter Shade Of Pale

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

Brian Swimme 1950- ~ Bjork 1965- ...Who Is It?

Imagine a great number of tiny bells hanging near each other. If some of these are struck sharply, they will transmit their own resonance throughout the ensemble.
No bell will remain the same, thus creating a new state for the whole of them. Like these tiny bells that are each responsive to the whole, humankind is inextricably embedded in a universe of creativity - our independence is an illusion. Creators serve as a vehicle through which information transfers from the infinitude (infinite to humankind)...

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Stevie Wonder 1950- ...Past-time Paradise

The sun set; but not his hope
Stars rose; his faith was earlier up
Fixed on the enormous galaxy
Deeper and older seemed his eye
And matched his sufferance sublime
The taciturnity of time.
He spoke and words more soft than rain
Brought the Age of Gold again.

Carlos Castenada 1925-1998 ~ Neil Young 1945- ...No Hidden Path

...Does this path have a heart is the only question.
If it does, then the path is good.
If it doesn't, it is of no use.

No Hidden Path - Neil Young Live Acoustic

Paul Yanik ~ Scatman John 1942-1999...Everybody Jam!

...What beauty shines in eyes that show
the noble thoughts which stir below
how beautiful the lips whose words
are sweeter than the song of birds
how lovely are the hands that serve
and feet of those that never swerve
from pathways that are pure and true
each passing day the whole life through...

Aldous Huxley 1894-1963 ~ Issa (aka Jane Siberry) 1955- ...Calling All Angels ~ with Kd Lang 1961-

The present moment is the only aperture through
which the soul can pass out of time into eternity,
through which grace can pass out of eternity into
the soul, and through which charity can pass from
one soul into time to another soul in time.

Genesis 8:22 ~ Joe South 1940- ...(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden ~ Lynn Anderson 1947-

While the Earth remaineth, seed time and harvest.

Confucious 551-479 BC ~ Joan Baez 1941- ...Diamonds And Rust

The gem cannot be polished without friction
nor man perfected without trials.

Henry van Dyke 1852-1933 ~ Steve Miller 1954- ...Fly Like An Eagle

Time is too slow for those who wait
too swift for those who fear
too long for those who grieve
too short for those who rejoice
but for those who love
time is eternity

Edgar Cayce 1877-1945 ~ The Tragically Hip - Gordon Downie 1964- ...Bobcaygeon

Though there may be worlds, many universes, even solar systems
greater than our own (the earth is a mere speck when
considered even with our own solar system) yet the soul of man,
your soul, encompasses all in this solar system or in others.
For we are joint heirs with the universal force we call God,
if we seek to do his bidding.

Plato 424-347 BC ~ Danny Michel 1970- ...The Invisible Man

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955 ~ Feist (Leslie Feist) 1976- ...I Feel It All

We are one, after all, you and I,
together we suffer, together exist,
and forever will recreate each other.

Robert Frost 1874-1963 ~ Lowell George 1945-1979 & Little Feat ...Willin'

I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages
hence; two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one
less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.

Romans 12:2 ~ Eric Idle 1943- ...Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

Be Ye transformed by the renewing of your Mind.

Albert Camus 1913-1960 ~ Elizabeth Cotten 1892-1987 ...Freight Train ~ with Pete Seeger 1919-

In the midst of Winter
I finally learned that
there was, in me,
an invincible summer.

Lao-tzu 604-521 BC ~ Gordon Lightfoot 1938- ...Canadian Railroad Trilogy

To see beauty in a seed is genius.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 ~ Everything But The Girl (Tracy Thorn 1962- & Ben Watt 1962- ) ...The Night I Heard Caruso Sing

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything
Is a miracle.

Ramakrishna 1836-1886 ~ The Beautiful South ...Liar's Bar

The fabled musk deer searches the World over
for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

Omar Ibn Al-Halif ~ Joe Henry ...Stop ~ Lizz Wright 1980-

Four things come not back:
the spoken word, the spent arrow
the past, the neglected opportunity...

Jose Ortega y Gasset 1883-1955 ~ Stevie Wonder 1950- ...Overjoyed

Tell me what you pay attention to
and I will tell you who you are.

Hildegarde of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Norman Greenbaum 1942- ...Spirit In The Sky ~ DC Talk

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...

Plotinus 205-270 ~ Neko Case 1970- ...John Saw That Number (traditional)

One principle must make the Universe
a single complex living creature,
One from All.

Elizabeth Brewster 1922- ~ Iris DeMent 1961- ...Let The Mystery Be

Into what ocean depths will my soul slide?
is a water drop lost or found
when it slips into the sea?

E. E. Cummings 1894-1962 ~ Van Morrison 1945 - ...You Gotta Make It Through The World

to be nobody-but-yourself in a world -
which is doing its best, night and day,
to make you everybody else - means to fight
the hardest battle which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Eels: Mark Everett aka A Man Called E 1963- ...Beautiful Freak

With each new mind, a new secret of nature transpires.

Ludwig von Beethovan 1770-1827 ~ Gregorian Chant: Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo

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

Victor Hugo 1802-1865 ~ Dust Galaxy (Rob Garza) ...Limitless

There is one spectacle grander than the sea,
that is the sky; there is one spectacle
grander than the sky, that is the
interior of the soul.

Dr. Robert Hastings 1924-1997 ~ Tony Hatch 1939- ...Call Me ~ Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley

It isn't the burdens of today that drive men mad.
Rather it is regret over yesterday or fear of
tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves
who would rob us of today.

Harriet Ward Beecher Stowe 1811-1896 ~ Bricusse/Newley (Leslie 1931- & Anthony 1931-1999) ...Feelin' Good ~ Muse

The sun does not shine for a few trees
and flowers but for the wide World's joy.

En Sofion ~ Alan Roubik 1961- ...Thought

God is my Father. Nature is my Mother. The Universe is my way.
Eternity is my kingdom. Immortality is my life. Mind is my home.
Truth is my cult. Love is my law. Form is my manifestation.
Conscience is my guide. Peace is my shelter. Experience is my school.
Obstacle is my lesson. Difficulty is my stimulant. Joy is my hymn.
Pain is my warning. Work is my blessing. Light is my realization.
The friend is my companion. The adversary is my teacher.
The neighbor is my brother. Struggle is my opportunity.
Future is my promise. Balance is my attitude. Order is my path.
Beauty is my ideal. Perfection is my destiny.

R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983 ~ Peter Green 1946- ...Black Magic Woman ~ Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha

Donot fight forces...use them.

Carl Jung 1875-1961 ~ Jimi Hendrix 1942-1970 ...May This Be Love

When you look inside yourself
you see the stars and all infinity.

Robert Frost 1874-1963 ~ Arlen/Harburg-Thiele/Weiss...Somewhere Over The Rainbow-What A Wonderful World: Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Arr. ~ Aselin Debison

Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village though
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
The only other sounds the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep.
And miles to go before I sleep.

Karl Menninger 1893-1990 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Father Of Day, Father Of Night ~ Manfred Mann

The central purpose of each life
should be to dilute the misery in the World.

Helen Keller 1880-1968 ~ Ellington Jordan & Billy Foster...I'd Rather Go Blind ~ Etta James & Dr John

Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind;
hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, as if you
would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if
tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume
of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow
you could never smell and taste again.

Sir James Jeans 1877-1946 ~ Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall)1972-...Where Is My Love?

It may be that each individual consciousness
is a brain cell in a Universal Mind.

Rumi 1207-1273 ~ Robin/Chase/Whiting (Leo 1900-1984 Newell 1904-1955 Richard 1891-1938) ...My Ideal: Chet Baker - Michael Grailler - Ricardo Delfra

Come, come, awaken all true drunkards! Pour the wine that is Life itself!
O cupbearer of the Eternal Wine, Draw it now from Eternity’s Jar!
This wine doesn’t run down the throat but it looses torrents of words!
Cupbearer, make my soul fragrant as musk, this noble soul of mine that
knows the Invisible! Pour out the wine for the morning drinkers! Pour
them this subtle and priceless musk! Pass it around to everyone in the
assembly in the cups of your blazing drunken eyes! Pass a philter from
your eyes to everyone else’s in a way the mouth knows nothing of, for
this is the way cupbearers always offer the holy and mysterious wine to
lovers. Hurry, the eyes of every atom in Creation are famished for this
flaming-out of splendour! Procure for yourself this fragrance of musk and
with it split open the breast of heaven! The waves of the fragrance of
this musk drive all Josephs out of their minds forever!

Philo (Philo of Alexandria Φίλων ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς) 20BC-50AD ~ Shawn Phillips 1943- ...The Ballad Of Casey Deiss

They are on the way to truth who apprehend God
by means of the divine, Light by the light.

Gregory Bateson 1904-1980 ~ Donovan (Philips Leicht) 1946- ...Hurdy Gurdy Man ~ Donavan & Butthole Surfers

The World partly comes to be how it is imagined.

Henry David Thoreau 1803-1852 ~ Keith/Bergman/Luboff (Marilyn 1929- Alan 1925- Norman 1917-1987)...Yellow Bird ~ The Mills Bros

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

Morris L. West 1916-1999 ~ Lennon/McCartney (John 1940-1980 Paul 1942-) The Beatles...Yer Blues ~ John with friends: Keith, Eric & Mitch

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.

Ogden Nash 1902-1971 & Kurt Weill 1900-1950...Speak Low (When You Speak Love) Charlie Haden 1937-

...Time is so old and Love so brief
Love is pure gold and time a thief...

Carl Jung 1875-1961 ~ C.Gibbs - Lucinda Blackbear ...Medicine Bag & You Got It Blue

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether
the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ~ Lou Reed 1942- ...Perfect Day ~ Lou Reed And Friends

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.

Martin Luther King 1929-1968 ~ Marvin Gaye 1939-1984 ...... Trouble Man

Courage is inner resolution to
go forward despite obstacles...

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Scatman John 1942-1999... Everything Changes

Each moment has its own beauty....a picture which was
never seen before and which shall never be seen again.

Emily Carr 1871-1945 ~ Modest Mussorgsky 1839-1881... Pictures At An Exhibition ~ Cameron Carpenter 1982-

Is one painting for the World or is one just trying to get
nearer to God and that of him which is all things and fills all spaces?

Shakespeare 1564-1616 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Lily, Rosemary & The Jack Of Hearts

Who can say more than this rich praise,
that you alone are you?