posted January 09, 2009 12:20 AM            

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We start out playing by ear, learning everything we can, and finally ending up playing by ear again.
-Lee Konitz

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
-Norman Podhoretz

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posted January 09, 2009 09:57 PM              

The process of creation is a process of inner discovery. In creating a work of art, we open ourselves to the very mysteries of the universe. We becomes channels for spiritual information, learning a language more universal then human tongues."

"As any linguist knows, the essence of a communication is often distorted in translation."

"The key to the mastery is always silence, at all levels, because in the silence we discern the vibrations and to discern them is to be able to capture them."
Sri Aurobindo

Was flipping around this book earlier and those caught my attention.
Wheels of Life, Anodea Judith PhD

posted January 30, 2009 09:38 AM            

Philippians 4:8

posted January 30, 2009 08:15 PM            

"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 my symphony."

William Henry Channing

posted February 03, 2009 09:39 AM            

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

~Henry ward Beecher

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

~Virginia Woolf

When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body. I measure your health by the number of shoes and hats and clothes you have worn out.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

~Oscar Wilde

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

~John Wooden

I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.

~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"

posted February 15, 2009 05:40 PM            

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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. ~ Susan Sontag

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I'm so vain (and paranoid) I probably think this quote is about me.

posted March 09, 2009 06:51 AM            

"The just may have been wicked in their former lives,
and the wicked righteous." ~ The Sefer Bahir

posted March 31, 2009 11:44 AM            

I've learned..... That when you're in love, it shows.

I've learned..... That just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.

I've learned....... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

I've learned..... That being kind is more important than being right.

I've learned..... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.

I've learned..... That I can always pray for someone when I don't have the strength to help him in some other way.

I've learned..... That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.

I've learned..... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.

I've learned..... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I've learned..... That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

I've learned..... That we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

I've learned..... That money doesn't buy class.

I've learned..... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

I've learned.... That under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

~Andy Rooney