Hildegarde Of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Tom Russell 1953- ...Nina Simone

There is the Music of Heaven in all things and we have forgotten how to hear it until we sing.

Civilla Durfee Martin 1866-1948 ~ The Temptations (Barrett Strong 1941- & Norman Whitfield 1940-2008) ...Cloud Nine

His eye is on the sparrow and I know he watches me...

Brigham Young 1801-1879 ~ Marvin Gaye 1939-1984 ...Sparrow

Nature is the glass reflecting God,
As by the sea reflected is the sun,
Too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere...

James 3:17 ~ James Shelton ?-? ...Lilac Wine ~ The Cinematic Orchestra

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
Then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated,
Full of mercy and good fruits,
Without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Hildegarde Of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Bobby Scott 1937-1990 & Rick Marlow 1925- ... A Taste Of Honey ~ Chet Baker 1924-1988

O Holy Wisdom, soaring Power,
Encompass us with wings unfurled,
And carry us, encircling all,
Above, below, and through the World.

Lord Byron 1788-1824 ~ Bobby Hebb 1938-2010 ...Sunny

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life.
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

Will Rogers 1879-1945 ~ RuthAnn Friedman 1944- ...Windy

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Psalms 19:14 ~ Earth, Wind & Fire (Charles Stepney, Maurice & Verdine White) ...That's The Way Of The World

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart,
Be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Nick Cave 1957- & Warren Ellis 1965- ...Carnival

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior,
Like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Edmund Burke 1729-1797 ~ Traditional; John Lomax 1867-1948 & Alan Lomax 1915-2002 ...I Know You Rider ~ Grateful Dead

You can never plan the future by the past.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen 1940-) ...Water Song

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962 ~ The Moody Blues (Ray Thomas 1941- ) ...Evening: Sunset/Twilight Time

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams...

Thomas Huxley 1825-1895 ~ Don McLean 1945- ...American Pie

Sit down before fact as a little child,
Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,
Follow humbly wherever and whatever abyss
Nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

W. Clement Stone 1902-2002 ~ E.Y. Harburg 1896-1981 & Jay Gorney 1894-1990 ...Brother, Can You Spare A Dime ~ Dr. John 1940- & Odetta 1930-2008

Your most precious, valued possessions and
Your greatest powers are invisible and intangible.
No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them.
You will receive abundance for your giving.

Emanuel Swedenborg 1688-1772 ~ Bjork 1965- ...All Is Full Of Love

And as the Divine that goes forth from the Lord
Is the good of love and the truth of faith,
The angels are angels and are heaven in the measure
In which they receive good and truth from the Lord.

Alfred Jarry 1873-1907 ~ Stevie Wonder 1950- ...Free

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Hildegarde Of Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia 1942-1995 & Bob Hunter 1941- ) ...Ripple

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music.
They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

Isaiah 55:12 ~ Neko Case 1970- ...I Wish I Was The Moon

For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace:
The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing,
And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Revelation 21:6 ~ George Gershwin 1898-1937 ...Summertime ~ Larry Adler 1914-2001 & Peter Gabriel 1950-

I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

Lord Byron 1788-1824 ~ JJ Cale 1938- ...Durango

In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

Henry Beston 1888-1968 ~ Cream (Pete Brown 1940- & Jack Bruce 1943- & Eric Clapton 1945- ) ...Sunshine Of Your Love ~ Ella Fitzgerald 1917-1996

Creation is still going on, the creative forces are
As great and as active today as they have ever been,
And tomorrow’s morning will be as heroic as any of the world.
Creation is here and now. So near is man to the creative pageant,
So much a part is he of the endless and incredible experiment,
That any glimpse he may have will be but the revelation of a moment,
A solitary note in a symphony thundering through debatable existences of time.

Brian Swimme 1950- ~ Laura Nyro 1947-1997 ...Stoned Soul Picnic

The Universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Ben Harper 1969- ...Diamonds On The Inside

If with closed ears and eyes I consult consciousness for a moment,
Immediately are all walls and barriers dissipated,
Earth rolls from under me, and I float . . .
In the midst of an unknown and infinite sea,
Or else heave and swell like a vast ocean of thought,
Without rock or headland, where are all riddles solved,
All straight lines making there their two ends to meet,
Eternity and space gambolling familiarly through my depths.
I am from the beginning, knowing no end, no aim. No sun illumines me,
For I dissolve all lesser lights in my own intenser and steadier light.
I am a restful kernel in the magazine of the universe. . . .

Aristophanes 446-386 BC ~ Christine McVie 1943- ...Songbird ~ Eva Cassidy 1963-1996

Hear us, you who are no more than leaves always falling,
You mortals benighted by nature, you enfeebled and powerless
Creatures of earth always haunting a world of mere shadows,
Entities without wings, insubstantial as dreams,
You ephemeral things, you human beings:
Turn your minds to our words, our etherial words,
For the words of the birds last forever!

Jacob Boehme 1575-1624 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Jokerman

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.
The outermost moving of this world cannot comprehend
The outermost moving of heaven aloft above this world,
For they are one to the other as life and death,
Or as a man and a stone are one to the other.

Henry William Channing 1810-1884 ~ Van Morrison 1945- ...Did Ye Get Healed?

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, await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
Grow up through the common -- this is to be my symphony.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Nina Violet 1982- ...Everything Comes Apart

The Divine is about to be, and such is its nature.
In our wisest moments we are secreting a matter, which,
Like the lime of the shell-fish, incrusts us quite over,
And well for us if, like it, we cast our shells from
Time to time, though they be pearl and of fairest tint.

Theodore Parker 1810-1860 ~ Tim Rice 1944- & Andrew Lloyd Webber 1948- ...Damned For All Time/Blood Money ~ Murray Head 1946-

America is a rebellious nation.
Our whole history is treason;
Our blood was attained before we were born;
Our creeds were infidelity to the mother church;
Our constitution treason to our fatherland.

Paramahansa Yogananda 1893-1952 ~ Randy Goodrum 1947- ...You Needed Me ~ Lenny Breau 1941-1984

Creation is light and shadow both, else no picture is possible.
The good and evil of maya must ever alternate in supremacy.
If joy were ceaseless here in this world, would man ever seek another?
Without suffering he scarcely cares to recall that he has forsaken
His eternal home. Pain is a prod to remembrance.
The way of escape is through wisdom...

John Hartford 1937-2001 ~ Rolling Stones (Jagger/Jones/Richards) ...Paint It Black ~ Eric Burdon & The Animals

The whole universe is based on rythms.
Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ John Prine 1946- & Keith Sykes 1949- ...You Got Gold

Truth is the property of no individual,
But is the treasure of all men.

Rumi 1207-1273 ~ Susan Werner ...Red Dress

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside.
That's how I hold your voice.

Buddha 563-483 BC ~ Steve Winwood 1948- ...Arc Of A Diver

Three things cannot be long hidden:
The sun, the moon, and the truth.

Plato 427-347 BC ~ Barrett Strong 1941- & Norman Jesse Whitfield 1940-2008 ...Smiling Faces Sometimes ~ The Undisputed Truth

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 1821-1881 ~ Van Morrison 1945- ...Stranded

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always
Turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,
But leave a little fallow corner in your heart
Ready for any seed the winds may bring...

Sarah Williams 1837–1868 ~ Solomon Burke 1940-2010 ...Flesh And Blood

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

Paramahansa Yoganandi 1893-1952 ~ American Spiritual ...Wade In The Water ~ Eva Cassidy 1963-1996

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean.
So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit.
The ocean can exist without the waves,
But the waves cannot exist without the ocean.

Sigmund Mowinckel 1884-1965 ~ Joni Mitchell 1943- ...For Free (with James Taylor 1948-)

For existence is an everlasting war between
The forces of life and death, blessing and curse.
The "world" is worn out if it is not regularly renewed,
As anyone can see by the animal course of life and nature...
The actualization of the fact of salvation is repeated as often as necessary.

Walter Brueggeman 1933- ~ Kurt Cobain 1967-1994 (Nirvana) ...Lake Of Fire

...Praise articulates and embodies our capacity to yield, to submit and
Abandon ourselves in trust and gratitude to the One whose we are.
Praise is not only a human requirement and a human need,
It is also a human delight - we have a resilient hunger to move beyond Self...

Paracelsus 1493-1591 ~ George Harrison 1943- 2001 ...Marwa Blues

Just as the sun shines through a glass...
The sun and the moon and all planets,
As well as all the stars and
Whole chaos, are in man.

Adolph Zeising 1810-1876 ~ Harold Arlan 1905-1986 & E Y Harburg 1896-1987 ...Over The Rainbow ~ Israel "IZ" Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole 1959-1997

The universal law in which is contained the ground-principle of all formative striving for
Beauty and completeness in the realms of both nature and art, and which permeates,
As a paramount spiritual ideal, all structures, forms and proportions,
Whether cosmic or individual, organic or inorganic, acoustic or optical;
Which finds its fullest realization, however, in the human form.

Jacob Bernoulli 1654-1705 ~ Blossom Dearie 1924-2009 ...Figure Eight

Although changed, I rise again the same.

Brian Swimme 1950- ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Mr Tambourine Man ~ Judy Collins 1939-

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)...

Rabindranath Tagore 1861-1941 ~ John Lennon 1940-1980 ...Oh, My Love

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Buddha 563-483BC ~ David Bowie 1947- ...Ashes To Ashes

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1910 ~ Elton John 1947- & Bernie Taupin 1950- ...I've Seen That Movie Too

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.

Marcus Aurelius 121-180 ~ Stevie Wonder 1950- ...Higher Ground

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

Thomas Browne 1605-1682 ~ Moby 1965- ...Whispering Wind

All things are artificial, for Nature is the art of God.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ Van Morrison 1945- ...Spanish Steps

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

Albert Einstein 1879-1955 ~ Sandy Denny 1947-1978 ...Who Knows Where The Time Goes ~ Nina Simone 1933-2003

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Alan Watts 1915-1973 ~ Thievery Corporation (Rob Garza & Eric Hilton) ...Beautiful Drug

For the love that express 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.

John Keats 1795-1821 ~ Jefferson Airplane ...Pretty As You Feel

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Gotta Serve Somebody ~ Shirley Caesar 1938-

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.

William Arthur Ward 1921-1994 ~ Nouvelle Vague ...LaLaLa

The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails.

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 ~ Crosby, Stills & Nash (Paul Kantner 1941- & David Crosby 1941- & Stephen Stills 1945- ) ...Wooden Ships

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night,
To defy power which seems omnipotent;
To love and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Claudio Naranjo 1932- ~ Jeff Tweedy 1967- ...You Are Not Alone ~ Mavis Staples 1939-

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.

Hildegarde Von Bingen 1098-1179 ~ Townes Van Zandt 1944-1997 ...Nothing

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...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 ~ Melody Gardot 1985- ... Who Will Comfort Me

Music is the Universal language of mankind.

1: John 3:18 ~ Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia 1942-1995 & Robert Hunter 1941- ) ... U.S. Blues

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk.
It must be a thing of action and sincerity.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 ~ The Spades (Roky Erickson 1947- ) ...We Sell Soul

Love is the wind, the tide, the waves, the sunshine.
Its power is incalculable; it is many horse-power.
It never ceases, it never slacks; it can move the globe without a resting-place;
It can warm without fire; It can feed without meat;
It can clothe without garments; it can shelter without roof;
It can make a paradise within which will dispense with a paradise without.
But though the wisest men in all ages have labored to publish this force,
And every human heart is, sooner or later, more or less, made to feel it,
Yet how little is actually applied to social ends!

C.S. Lewis 1898-1963 ~ Paul McCartney 1942- ...How Kind Of You

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience,
But shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Adlai Stevenson 1900-1965 ~ Adios, Au Revoir, Auf Wiedersehen ~ Lawrence Welk

...I have lost an inspiration.
She would rather light candles than curse the darkness,
And her glow has warmed the world.

Helen Keller 1880-1968 ~ Neko Case 1970- ...Maybe Sparrow

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness,
Because to have knowledge - Broad, deep knowledge -
Is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to
Feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries;
And if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving,
One must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.