Divine-Line

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 ~ Van Morrison 1945- ...Listen To The Lion

2012-09-29T08:32:00.004-07:00

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead who slumbers, and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is ernest! And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment and not sorrow, is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow find us farther than today.
Art is long, and time is fleeting, and hearts though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums are beating funeral marches to the grave.
In the world's broad field of battle, in the bivouac of Life
Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past, bury its dead!
Act - act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime,
And departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Footprints that perhaps another, sailing o'er Life's solemn main;
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing with a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

Job 12:7-10 ~ Stevie Wonder 1950- ...Isn't She Lovely

2012-07-01T21:12:00.000-07:00

In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the breath of every human being!

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822 ~ Van Morrison 1945- ...Just Like Greta

2012-06-06T13:52:00.001-07:00

Are we not formed as notes of music are, for one another, though dissimilar?

Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 ~ The Beatles (Lennon/McCartney) ...The Sun King

2012-04-17T13:56:00.001-07:00

He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.

John Fletcher 1579-1625 ~ Thievery Corporation (Rob Garza & Eric Hilton and many others) ...The Cosmic Game

2012-04-09T21:54:00.005-07:00

Man is his own star; and the soul that can render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate; nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 ~ Bob Dylan 1941- ...Gates Of Eden

2012-04-04T06:13:00.003-07:00

THINK me not unkind and rude that I walk alone in grove and glen;
I go to the god of the wood to fetch his word to men.
Tax not my sloth that I fold my arms beside the brook;
Each cloud that floated in the sky writes a letter in my book.
Chide me not, laborious band, for the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand goes home loaded with a thought.
There was never mystery but ’tis figured in the flowers;
Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
One harvest from thy field homeward brought the oxen strong;
A second crop thine acres yield, which I gather in a song.

William Shakespeare 1564-1616 ~ George Harrison 1943-2001 ...I'd Have You Anytime

2012-03-14T21:30:00.005-07:00

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 ~ Richard Rogers 1902-1979 & Oscar Hammerstein 1895-1960 ...You'll Never Walk Alone ~ Johnny Cash 1932-2003

2012-03-03T19:52:00.005-08:00

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard; and sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird that kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chilliest land and on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity, it asked a crumb of me.

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

2011-12-01T07:48:00.001-08:00

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

2011-10-28T12:35:00.000-07:00

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

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

2011-10-21T12:05:00.000-07:00

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

2011-10-13T08:47:00.000-07:00

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

2011-10-11T22:46:00.001-07:00

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

2011-09-08T20:41:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-26T12:41:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-21T15:32:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-17T11:30:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-15T12:15:00.000-07:00

You can never plan the future by the past.

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

2011-08-13T21:26:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-04T07:43:00.001-07:00

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

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

2011-07-31T14:36:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-26T04:54:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-16T12:39:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-14T05:18:00.000-07:00

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

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

2011-07-11T10:50:00.001-07:00

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.