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.