Monday, January 11, 2010

Rollo May 1909-1994 ~ Cat Stevens 1948- ...Hard Headed Woman

The paradox of love is that it is the highest degree of awareness
Of the self as a person and the highest degree of absorption in the other.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

George Elliot (Mary Anne Evans) 1819-1880 ~ Woodie Guthrie 1912-1967 ...This Land Is Your Land

O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence: live in pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence
Urge man's search to vaster issues. So to live in Heaven;
To make undying music in the World!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Lhasa de Sela 1972-2010 ...Rising Listen

Uprose the merry sphinx, and crouched no more in stone;
She melted into purple cloud, she silvered in the moon;
She spired into a yellow flame, she flowered in blossom red;
She flowed into a foaming wave, she stood Monadnoc's head.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Minnie Lou Haskins 1875-1957 ~ Zager & Evans (Rick Evans 1943- ) ...In The Year 2525

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year,
"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown"
And he replied, "Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God;
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!"
So I went forth and finding the hand of God, trod gladly into the night.
He led me towards the hills and the breaking of day in the lone east.
So heart be still! What need our human life to know if God hath comprehension?
In all the dizzy strife of things both high and low, God hideth his intention.