John Addington Symonds 1840-1893 ~ Timmy Thomas 1944- ...Why Can't We Live Together

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.

Jacob Boehme 1575-1624 ~ John Newton 1725–1807 ...Amazing Grace ~ Sufjan Stevens 1975-

There is one Heart, one Being, one Will, one God, all in all.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin 1814-1880 ~ Johnny Marks 1909-1985 & Marvin Brody ?-? ...Run, Run Rudolph ~ Grateful Dead

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Irving Berlin 1888-1989 ...White Christmas ~ Bob Marley & The Wailers

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Rachel Carson 1907-1964 ~ Robert Croo & Unknown 1500's ...Coventry Carol ~ Nox Arcana

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.

Katherine Mansfield 1888-1922 ~ Lightnin' Hopkins 1912-1982 ...Santa

Last night for the first time since you were dead
I walked with you, my brother, in a dream.
We were at home again beside the stream
Fringed with tall berry bushes, white and red.
"Don't touch them: they are poisonous," I said.
But your hand hovered, and I saw a beam
Of strange, bright laughter flying round your head
And as you stooped I saw the berries gleam.
"Don't you remember? We called them Dead Man's Bread!"
I woke and heard the wind moan and the roar
Of the dark water tumbling on the shore.
Where--where is the path of my dream for my eager feet?
By the remembered stream my brother stands
Waiting for me with berries in his hands...
"These are my body. Sister, take and eat."

C.S. Lewis 1898-1963 ~ Marvin Gaye 1939-1994 ...Purple Snowflakes

Miracles are a retelling in small letters
Of the very same story which is written across the whole world
In letters too large for some of us to see.

Julian Of Norwich 1342-1416 ~ Adolphe Adam 1803-1856 & Placide Cappeau 1808-1877 ...O Holy Night ~ Nat King Cole 1919-1965

Good Lord, I see you, Who are Truth itself.

Mark 4:31 ~ Unknown ...God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen ~ Loreena McKennitt 1957-

It is like a mustard seed that, when it is sown into the ground,
Is the smallest of all the seeds on the earth.

William Butler Yeats 1866-1939 ~ Latin Unknown... 8th-15th Century ~ Veni, Veni, Emmanuel ~ Winter Harp

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.

Rumi 1207-1273 ~ Laura Nyro 1947-1997 ...Eli's Coming ~ Three Dog Night

Love is a fire and I am wood.

John 1:23 ~ Unknown Spiritual Songwriter ~ John Saw That Number ~ Neko Case 1970-

I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness...

William Blake 1757-1827 ~ Leon Russell 1942- & Don Preston 1942- ...Stranger In A Strange Land

Every night and every morn some to misery are born.
Every morn and every night some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.
We are led to believe a lie when we see not through the eye
Which was born in a night to perish in a night, when the soul slept in beams of light.
God appears, and God is light to those poor souls who dwell in night,
But does a human form display to those who dwell in realms of day.

Thomas Merton 1915-1968 ~ Willy Mason 1984- ...Oxygen

Every moment and every event of every man's life plants something in his soul.
For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds,
So each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality
That come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men.
Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost,
Because men are not prepared to receive them.
For such seeds cannot spring up anywhere,
Except in the good soil of freedom, spontaneity and love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Van Morrison 1945- ...I'll Be Your Lover, Too

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.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Clutchy Hopkins ...Verbal Headlock

What language is thine, O sea? The language of eternal question.
What language is thy answer, O sky? The language of eternal silence.

Daniel C Matt ~ The Moody Blues (Justin Hayward 1968- ) ...Voices In The Sky

God is not static being, but dynamic becoming.
Without human participation, God remains incomplete, unrealized.
God needs us.

Carson McCullers 1917-1967 ~ Thievery Corporation (Rob Garza / Eric Hilton) & David Byrne ...The Heart's A Lonely Hunter

And all the time - no matter what she was doing - there was music.

Tyron Edwards 1809-1894 ~ Joseph Kosma 1905-1967 & Jaques Prevert 1900-1977 & Johnny Mercer 1909-1976 ...Autumn Leaves ~ Eva Cassidy 1963-1996

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.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Unknown American Spiritual Songwriter ...Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child ~ Van Morrison 1945-

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Eve Merriam 1916-1992 ~ Elton John 1947- & Bernie Taupin 1950- ...Border Song

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, "Mother, what was war?"

Claude Debussy 1862-1918 ~ Dan Hicks 1941- ...Evenin' Breeze

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters,
The play of curves described by changing breezes.

Ala Bashir 1939- ~ Tom Petty 1954- ...Running Man's Bible

Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time,
And his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with Love
He could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil.

William Shakespeare 1564-1616 ~ Stevie Wonder 1950- ...Summer Soft ~ Maria Castro-Neves

But like of each thing that in season grows.

Matthew 5:13-16 ~ Bruce Cockburn 1945- ...Salt, Sun and Time & Grateful Dead (Garcia/Dawson/Hunter) ...Friend Of The Devil

You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored?
It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot.
You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.
No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand,
And it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others,
So that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

1 Corinthians 13:12 ~ Steely Dan (Walter Becker 1950- & Donald Fagan 1948- ) ...Show Biz Kids ~ Rickie Lee Jones 1954-

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:
Now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

Marc Chagall 1887-1985 ~ Peter Case 1954- ...Colors Of Night

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Henry Wotton 1568-1639 ~ Aimee Mann 1960- ...Calling It Quits

This man is freed from servile bands of hope to rise or fear to fall;
Lord of himself, though not of lands, and, having nothing, yet hath all.

Henri Nouwen 1932-1996 ~ Grand Funk Railroad (Mark Farner 1948- ) ...I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)

Our primary concern should be survival of humanity,
The survival of the planet, and the health of all people.

Anonymous ~ Suzanne Vega 1959- ...Small Blue Thing

The brightest light moving away from us, unless it be reflected, is darkness to us.

Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952~ Bill Evans 1929-1980 ...Blue In Green ~ Miles Davis 1926-1991

In seemingly empty space there is one link,
One life eternal, which unites everything in the universe -
Animate and inanimate - one wave of life flowing through everything.

Erwin Schrodinger 1887-1961 ~ Carlos Santana 1948- ...Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Joy)

For eternally and always there is only now,
One and the same now;
The present is the only thing that has no end.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 ~ John McLaughlin 1942- ...Shakti Joy

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand,
While imagination embraces the entire world,
And all there ever will be to know and understand.

Annie Rix Militz 1856-1924 ~ Bob Marley 1945-1981 ...One Love ~ Playing For Change

Nature is the mirror of God; the receptivity of manifestation;
The deep over which the Spirit of God ever moves, bringing forth His image;
The "emptiness" or vacuum; the nothing being perpetually filled with the All.
The true Kingdom, which is the fullness of manifestation, is here in all its completeness.
Whoever seeks its joys and treasures, and strives to understand its laws and purposes,
Will also come into the knowledge and possessions of this world which shadows it.

Charles Darwin 1809-1882 ~ Joni Mitchell 1943- ...Blue

Nothing can be forgotten.
Nothing can be lost.
The Universe itself is one vast memory system.
Look back and you will find
The beginnings of the world...

1 Corinthians 13:4 ~ Neko Case & Her Boyfriends (Neko Case 1970- & Travis Good ?- ) ...Furnace Room Lullaby

And though I have the gift of prophecy,
And understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;
And though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains,
And have not love, I am nothing.

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 ~ Frank Zappa 1940-1993 ...Cosmik Debris

Whoever undertakes to set himself up
As a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
Shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Luke 12:34 ~ Neil Young 1945- ...Heart Of Gold

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Lao Tzu 600-531BC ~ Donovan 1946- ...Season Of The Witch ~ Julie Driscoll 1947-

Seeing into darkness is clarity.
Use your own light and
Return to the source of light.

Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948 ~ Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green ...The Party's Over ~ Blossom Dearie ...1924-2009

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.

Natalie Allyn Sleeth 1930-1992 ~ Unknown ...I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground ~ Bascom Lamar Lunsford ...1882-1973

In the bulb there is a flower; in the seed, an apple tree;
In cocoons, a hidden promise: butterflies will soon be free!
In the cold and snow of winter, there’s a spring that waits to be,
Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.
There’s a song in every silence, seeking word and melody;
There’s a dawn in every darkness, bringing hope to you and me.
From the past will come the future; what it holds, a mystery,
Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.
In our end is our beginning; in our time, infinity;
In our doubt there is believing; in our life, eternity,
In our death, a resurrection; at the last, a victory,
Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see.

Ralph Waldo Trine 1866-1958 ~ The Youngbloods (Jessie Colin Young 1941- )...Darkness, Darkness

Let there be many windows in your soul that all the glory of the universe may beautify it.
Not the narrow pane of one poor creed can catch the radiant rays that shine from countless sources.
Tear away the blinds of superstition; let the light pour through the fair windows
Broad as truth itself and high as heaven...
Tune your ear to all the wordless music of the stars and to the voice of nature,
And your heart shall turn to truth and goodness as the plant turns to the sun.
A thousand unseen hands reach down to help you to their peace-crowned heights
And all the forces of the firmament shall fortify your strength.
Be not afraid to thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Tom Petty 1954- ...Wildflowers

The world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.
It becomes small as one song, as one kiss of the eternal.

Hildegarde of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Daniel Lanois 1950- ...The Maker ~ Jerry Garcia 1942-1995

All of creation is a song of praise to God.

Jacob Boehme 1575-1624 ~ Bachman-Turner Overdrive (Randy Bachmann 1943- ) ...Lookin' Out For #I

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.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Herbie Hancock 1940- ...Watermelon Man

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
Perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
However measured or far away.

Mae West 1893-1980 ~ Steely Dan (Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, Paul Griffin) ...The Fez

Sex is emotion in motion.

Ayn Rand 1905-1982 ~ Pink Floyd (Roger Waters 1943- ) ...Money ~ Velvet Revolver

So you think that money is the root of all evil.
Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Plato 428-348 BC ~ The Isley Brothers (Ernie, Marvin, O'Kelly Jr, Ronald, Rudolph & Vernon) ...Work To Do

Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Jenny Lewis 1976- ...Pretty Bird

Never be afraid of the moments, thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

Percy Shelly 1792-1822 ~ Hoagy Carmichael 1899-1881 & Johnny Mercer 1909-1976 ...Skylark ~ Aretha Franklin 1942-

Hail to thee, blithe spirit! From the earth thou springest, like a cloud of fire
The blue deep thou wingest, and singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Bird thou never wert that from heaven or near it
Pourest thy full heart in profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Higher still and higher from the earth thou springest, like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest, and singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
In the golden light'ning of the sunken sun, o'er which clouds are bright'ning,
Thou dost float and run, like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.
The pale purple even melts around thy flight; like a star of heaven,
In the broad daylight thou art unseen, but yet I hear thy shrill delight-
Keen as are the arrows of that silver sphere whose intense lamp narrows
In the white dawn clear, until we hardly see, we feel that it is there.
All the earth and air with thy voice is loud, as when night is bare,
From one lonely cloud the moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflow'd.
What thou art we know not; what is most like thee? From rainbow clouds there flow not
Drops so bright to see, as from thy presence showers a rain of melody:-
Like a poet hidden in the light of thought, singing hymns unbidden,
Till the world is wrought to sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:
Like a high-born maiden in a palace tower, soothing her love-laden
Soul in secret hour with music sweet as love, which overflows her bower:
Like a glow-worm golden in a dell of dew, scattering unbeholden
Its aërial hue among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view:
Like a rose embower'd in its own green leaves, by warm winds deflower'd,
Till the scent it gives makes faint with too much sweet those heavy-wingèd thieves.
Sound of vernal showers on the twinkling grass, rain-awaken'd flowers-
All that ever was joyous and clear and fresh-thy music doth surpass.
Teach us, sprite or bird, what sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard
Praise of love or wine that panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Chorus hymeneal, or triumphal chant, match'd with thine would be all
But an empty vaunt- a thin wherein we feel there is some hidden want.
What objects are the fountains of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains?
What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
With thy clear keen joyance languor cannot be: shadow of annoyance
Never came near thee: thou lovest, but ne'er knew love's sad satiety.
Waking or asleep, thou of death must deem things more true and deep
Than we mortals dream, or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal stream?
We look before and after, and pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Yet, if we could scorn hate and pride and fear, if we were things born
Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Better than all measures of delightful sound, better than all treasures
That in books are found, thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
Teach me half the gladness that thy brain must know; such harmonious madness
From my lips would flow, the world should listen then, as I am listening now.

John Muir 1838-1914 ~ Townes Van Zandt 1944-1997 ...If I Needed You

This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere;
The dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling;
Vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset,
Eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands,
Each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

Pythagoras 570-495 BC ~ Unknown Folksinger ...The House Of The Rising Sun ~ Nina Simone 1933-2003

Virtue is harmony.

James Michener 1907-1997 ~ Joan Baez 1941- ...Babe I'm Gonna Leave You

For this is the journey that men make to find themselves.
If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find.
But if a man happens to find himself - if he knows what he can be
Depended upon to do, the limits of his courage, the positions from which
He will no longer retreat, the degree to which he can surrender his
Inner life to some woman, the secret reservoirs of his determination,
The extent of his dedication, the depth of his feeling for beauty,
His honest and unpostured goals - then he has found a mansion which
He can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

Carl Schurz 1829-1906 ~ Thievery Corporation ...Meu Destino

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands.
But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters,
You choose them as your guides,
And following them you will reach your destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1823-1884 ~ Alan Block & Hecht 1930-2002 ...Walkin' After Midnight ~ Patsy Cline 1932-1963

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars...
The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present,
They are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression,
When the mind is open to their influence, nature never wears a mean appearance.
Neither does the wisest of men extort her secret, and lose his curiousity by
Finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit.
The flowers, the animals, the mountains reflected the wisdom of his best hour,
As much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.

Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900 ~ JJ Cale 1947- ...Cloudy Day

O man, take care! What does the deep midnight declare?
"I was asleep — from a deep dream I woke and swear:
The world is deep, deeper than day had been aware.
Deep is its woe — joy — deeper yet than agony:
Woe implores: Go! But all joy wants eternity —
Wants deep, wants deep eternity"

Lao Tzu 600-531 BC ~ The Alan Parsons Project (Alan Parsons 1948- & Eric Woolfson 1945-2009) ...I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You

The reason why the universe is eternal
Is that it does not live for itself;
It gives life to others as it transforms.

Mahadeviyakka 12c ~ Harry Nilsson 1941-1994 ...Coconut

When I entered a rock, you too entered the rock;
When I entered a mountain, you too entered the mountain;
Hurray for life! You came following me, Lord
Who is as white as jasmine, what else shall I do?

Helen Keller 1880-1968 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...It Takes Alot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry ~ Grateful Dead

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.

Lord Byron 1788-1824 ~ Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger 1943- & Keith Richards 1943- ) ...Sympathy For The Devil ~ Sandie Shaw 1947-

History is the devil's scripture.

Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 ~ Moby 1965- ...Walk With Me ~ Lizz Wright 1980-

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places.

Josiah Royce 1855-1916 ~ John Prine 1946- ...Jesus The Missing Years

Of this our true individual life,
Our present life is a glimpse,
A fragment, a hint, and in its best
Moments a visible beginning.

Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 ~ Alfred Brumley...I'll Fly Away ~ Steve Goodman 1948-1984

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

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 ~ The Beatles (Paul McCartney 1942- & John Lennon 1940-1980) ...A Day In The Life ~ Neil Young 1945-

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.

Williams James 1842-1944 ~ John Hiatt 1952- ...Master Of Disaster

Our lives are like islands in the sea
Or like trees in the forest
Which co-mingle their roots
In the darkness underground.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Janis Ian 1951- ...Stars

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

Louise Scott ~ Mannfred Mann ...Bare Hugg

When divers press too far into that world of underwater light - as never seen -
Translucent hands will beckon, fingers curled, and seaweed's tentacles
Embrace with green that subtly coils in ever tightening grip,
Music of sirens singing in their ears of treasure glinting from a sunken ship,
Spilling from rusty coffers lost for years. Then in that perilous
Moment they must choose between reality and dream, when they may yield to
Bright allurement there and lose all memory of sky, or turn away.
There will be some with secrets wise to keep who came too close to rapture of the deep.

John Keats 1795-1821~ Blind Faith (Steve Winwood 1948- ) ...Sea Of Joy

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us,
And a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils with the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make 'gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms: and such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead; all lovely tales that we have heard or read:
An endless fountain of immortal drink, pouring unto us from the heaven's brink...

Billy Strayhorn 1915-1967 ...A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing ~ Brad Smith & Anna Fan

A flower is a lovesome thing
A luscious, living, lovesome thing
A daffodil, a rose, no matter where it grows
Is such a lovely lovesome thing
A flower is the heart of spring
That makes the rolling hillsides sing
The gentle winds that blow
Blow gently for they know
A flower is a lovesome thing
Flaming with the breeze
Swaying with the trees
In the silent night
Or in the misty light
Such a miracle
Azaleas drinking pale moonbeams
Gardenias floating through daydreams
Wherever they may grow
No matter where you go

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Mountain (Felix Pappalardi 1939-1983 & Gail Collins Pappalardi 1941- ) ...Nantucket Sleighride

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas,
Dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power,
With an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Plato 428-328 BC ~ Shelby Lynne 1970- ...Black Light Blue

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.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Cat Stevens 1948- ...How Can I Tell You

The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy,
The bird in the air is singing, but Man has in him...
The silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.

Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 ~ T-Bone Walker 1910-1975 ...Stormy Monday ~ Eva Cassidy 1963-1996

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944 ~ Van Morrison 1945- ...Beside You

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but
In looking outward together in the same direction.

Vincent van Gogh 1853-1890 ~ Stevie Wonder 1950... As

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1823-1884 ~ Aimee Mann 1960- ...Nothing Is Good Enough

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud.
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge
As the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end,
Though you can render no reason.

Catherine Of Siena 1347-1380 ~ Harry Nilsson 1941-1994 ...Early In The Morning

In the evening of this life we will be judged on love.

John Joseph Lewis ~ Neko Case 1970- ...Lonely Old Lies

The only stand I ever concretely take is either for the truth
Or the pursuit of truth wherever that path may lie.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Crowded House (Neil 1958- & Tim 1952- ) ...Weather With You

To fundamentally affect the quality of each day, that is the highest of the arts.

Jacob Boehme 1575-1624 ~ Steely Dan (Walter Becker 1950- & Donald Fagen 1948- ) ...Only A Fool Would Say That

The mortal body is but a husk from which the new body grows, as it is with a grain of wheat.
Behold the mystery of the earth: as that brings forth so must thou bring forth.
Man's child is the soul which is born in the astral moving from the flesh
And the earth's child is the grass, the herbs, the trees.
Out of the earth silver, gold and all manner of ore came to be
In the deep above the earth sprang the wonderful forming of power and virtue.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ~ Cat Power 1972- ...Metal Heart

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.

Emily Bronte 1818-1848 ~ Irving Mills (aka Joe Primrose) 1894-1985 ...Saint James Infirmary ~ Dixieland Crackerjacks

With wide-embracing love
Thy spirit animates eternal years
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves,
Creates and rears...

Martin Buber 1878-1965 ~ The Tragically Hip (Gord Downie 1964- ) ...The Last Recluse

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly,
God is the electricity that surges between them.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Delroy Wilson 1948-1995 ...Better Must Come

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently
In the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex,
And solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Martin Luther King Jr 1929-1968 ~ Thievery Corporation ...Marching The Hate Machines

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

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ~ The Ross Sisters ...Solid Potato Salad

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment
And drink your wine with a merry heart.

Claudio Naranjo 1932- ~ Cymande ...Dove

We are...a part of the cosmos, a tide in the ocean of life,
A chain in the network of processes that do not either
Begin or end within the enclosure of our skins.

Chinese Proverb ~ Liquid Liquid ...Cavern

If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -
Go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you
Want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.

Violeta Parra 1917-1967 ...Gracias A La Vida (Thanks To Life)

Thanks to life, which has given me so much. It gave me two beams of light,
That when opened, can perfectly distinguish black from white,
And in the sky above, her starry backdrop, and from within the multitude
The one that I love. Thanks to life, which has given me so much.
It gave me an ear that, in all of its width records night and day
Crickets and canaries, hammers and turbines and bricks and storms
And the tender voice of my beloved. Thanks to life, which has given me so much.
It gave me sound and the alphabet. With them the words that I think and declare:
"Mother," "Friend," "Brother" and the Light shining. The root of the soul from
Which comes love. Thanks to life, which has given me so much.
It gave me the ability to walk with my tired feet. With them I have
Traversed cities and puddles, valleys and deserts, mountains and plains
And your house, your street and your patio. Thanks to life
Which has given me so much. It gave me a heart
That causes my frame to shudder when I see the fruit of the human brain,
When I see good so far from bad, when I see within the clarity of your eyes.
Thanks to life, which has given me so much. It gave me laughter
And it gave me longing. With them I distinguish happiness and pain
The two materials from which my songs are formed, and your song as well,
Which is the same song. And everyone's song, which is my very song.

Rumi 1207-1273 ~ Jackson, Miner & Smith ...Higher and Higher ~ Jimmy Cliff 1948-

Love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1823-1884 ~ Keith Richards 1943- & Mick Jagger 1943- ...Wild Horses ~ Susan Boyle 1961- & Fantasia

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet,
But stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men...
There seems to be a necessity in spirit to manifest itself in material forms;
And day and night, river and storm, beast and bird, acid and alkali, preexist
In necessary Ideas in the mind of God, and are what they are by the
Virtue of preceding affections, in the world of spirit...the visible
Creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Hildegarde of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Sly And The Family Stone (Sly Stone 1943- ) ...Trip To Your Heart

...Oh sweet taste in our bodies and infusion in our hearts of the fragrance of all virtues...

Leigh Hunt 1784-1859 ~ OK Go ...This Too Shall Pass

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering,
How we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion,
From one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Moby 1965- ...In This World

Power said to the world "You are mine". The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world "I am thine". The world gave it the freedom of her house.

Joe Miller ~ Tim Rice 1944- & Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948- ...Everything's Alright

The manifested Universe is the keyboard upon which the Master
Artist of spiritual reality plays a symphonic arrangement of life.

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952 ~ Cab Calloway 1907-1994 ...Minnie The Moocher

What has life or death to do with Light?
In the image of My Light I have made you.
The relativities of life and death belong to the cosmic dream.
Behold your dreamless being! Awake, my child, awake!

Gandhi 1869-1948 ~ Iris Dement 1961- ...Sweet Is The Melody

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.

Hildegarde of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Blue Rodeo (Greg Keelor 1954- ...Black Ribbon

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.

Rollo May 1909-1994 ~ Ed Cobb 1938-1999 (The Standells) ...Dirty Water

Creativity arises out of the tension between
Spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks)
Forcing the spontaneity into the various forms
Which are essential to the work of art or poem.

Jacob Boehme 1575-1624 ~ Cole Porter 1891-1964 ...Don't Fence Me In ~ David Byrne 1952-

As the many kinds of flowers grow in the earth near each other
And none contends with the other about the color, smell or taste,
But they let the earth and the sun, rain and wind, heat and cold,
Do what they will with them, while they grow each according
To its own nature, so it is with the children of God.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Jose Carlos Burle 1910-1983 & Will Holt 1929- ...Lemon Tree ~ Thievery Corporation & Herb Alpert 1935-

Be still my heart, those great trees are prayers.

Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952 ~ Steely Dan (Donald Fagen 1948- & Walter Becker 1950-) ...Chain Lightning

You are That in which is rooted everything in the universe.

Ludwig van Beethovan 1770-1827 ~ Marvin Gaye 1939-1984 ...Trouble Man

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

St Paul ~ Burt Bacharach 1928- & Hal David 1921- ...Don't Make Me Over ~ Cal Tjader 1925-1982

We are God's work of art.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ Blossom Dearie 1924-2009 ...Blossom's Blues

The leaf becomes flower when it loves.
The flower becomes fruit when it worships.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein ~ It Might As Well Be Spring ~ Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto

Spring...a natural resurrection...an experience of immortality

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 ~ Traffic (Steve Winwood 1948- & Jim Capoldi 1944-2005) ...Paper Sun

Every second is of infinite value.

Ernest Holmes 1887-1960 ~ Spirit (Jay Ferguson 1947- ) ...Fresh Garbage

Out of any chaos we can produce harmony.

Lao Tzu 604-521BC ~ The Beatles (George Harrison 1943- 2001) ...Within You Without You

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things
And makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983 ~ The Kinks (Ray Davies 1944- ) ...Superman

Don't fight forces; use them.

John Addington Symonds 1840-1893 ~ Ten Years After (Alvin Lee 1944- ) ...Here They Come

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.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955 ~ Charlotte Gainsbourg 1971- ...Time Of The Assassins

Love is the affinity which links and draws
Together the elements of the world...
Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

William Blake 1757-1827 ~ Grateful Dead (Bob Weir 1947- & John Barlow 1947- ) ...Estimated Prophet

I rest not from my great task! To open the Eternal Worlds,
To open the Immortal Eyes of Man inwards into
The Worlds of Thought; into Eternity ever expanding
In the Bosom of God, The Human Imagination.

Leo Buscaglia 1924-1998 ~ The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed 1942- ) ...I'll Be Your Mirror ~ Clem Snide

Love is like a mirror. When you love another
You become his mirror and he becomes yours...
And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.

Anonymous ~ Pink Floyd - Roger Waters 1943- ...Julia Dream

No glass ever became sand again; no bread ever became wheat;
No ripened fruit ever became a flower. Welcome change and choose
What kind of glass you create, what kind of bread you bake, what kind of fruit you harvest.

Walt Whitman 1819-1892 ~ Marvin Gaye 1939-1984 ...A Funky Space Reincarnation

In my dream, I dream all the dreams of the other dreamers and I become the other dreamers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1823-1884 ~ John Lennon 1943-2001 ...#9 Dream

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.
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.

Alan Watts 1915-1973 ~ Bob Dylan 1943- ...One More Cup Of Coffee

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.

Rumi 1207-1273 ~ George Harrison 1943-2001...Out Of The Blue

Come, come whoever you are - wanderer, idolator, worshipper of fire.
Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times,
Come and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952 ~ Charles Mingus 1922-1979 & Joni Mitchell 1943- ...Horas Decubitus ~ Elvis Costello 1954-

In seemingly empty space there is one link,
One life eternal, which unites everything in the universe -
Animate and inanimate - one wave of life flowing through everything.

Luo Qinshun 1465-1547 ~ Steely Dan (Walter Becker 1950- & Donald Fagen 1948- ) ...Pretzel Logic

That which penetrates Heaven and Earth and connects past and present
Is nothing other than the material substance (qi), which is unitary.

Lao- tzu 604-521 BC ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival (John Fogarty 1945- ) ...Run Through The Jungle

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

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ John Hiatt 1952- ...Thunderbird

Men say they know many things; but lo!
They have taken wings:
The arts and sciences, and a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows is all that anybody knows.

Jacob Boehme 1575-1624 ~ JJ Cale 1938- ...Sensitive Kind

If man's eyes were but opened
He should see God everywhere
In his heaven, for Heaven stands in
The innermost moving everywhere.

Helen Keller 1880-1968 ~ Suzanne Vega 1959- ...My Favorite Plum

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.

e.e. cummings 1894-1962 ~ Bjork 1965- ...Venus As A Boy

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.

Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 ~ Steppenwolf (John Kaye 1944- & Rushton Moreve 1948-1981) ...Magic Carpet Ride

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark
From another person. Each of us has cause to thank with
Deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Sir Thomas Browne 1605-1682 ~ Dave Pike 1938- ...Mather

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

William Blake 1757-1827 ~ Jim Morrison 1943-1971 ...Light My Fire ~ Astrud Gilberto 1940-

Energy is eternal delight.

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ James ...Skindiving

The waterfall sings "I find my song, when I find my freedom".

Epictetus AD55-AD135 ~ Ozark Mountain Daredevils (John Dillon) ...Standing On The Rock

Nothing great is created suddenly,
Anymore than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

St Clare Of Assisi 1194-1253 ~ Dave Pike 1938- ...Sittin' On My Knees

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity!
Place your soul in the brilliance of glory!
Place your heart in the figure of the divine substance!
And transform your entire being into the
Image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

Judges 9:15 ~ Richard Loris Jones 1922-1985 ~ The Moon Is Made Of Gold ~ Ricki Lee Jones 1954-

Come and put your trust in my shadow.

Plato 428BC-348BC ~ Galt MacDermot 1928- /James Rado 1932- /Gerome Ragni 1935-1991 ...Good Morning Starshine ~ Oliver 1945-2000

Light is the shadow of God.

Sirach 30:15 ~ Ed Cobb 1938-1999 ...Tainted Love ~ Gloria Jones 1948-

More precious than gold is health and well-being, contentment of spirit than coral.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 ~ Rob Garza & Eric Hilton: Thievery Corporation ...Revoloution Solution ~ Perry Farrell 1959-

The big question before our people today is whether we are to be 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.

Rudolph Eucken 1846-1926 ~ Colin Blunstone 1945- ...Smokey Day

Man is the meeting point of various stages of Reality.

Ecclesiates 3:1 ~ Steven Tyler 1948- (Aerosmith) ...Seasons Of Wither

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.