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?