WE CAN LOFT EACH OTHER UP HIGHER & HIGHER-QUOTES WILL HELP – – PAUL VALERY, ”’,vBEETHOVEN, Cocteau, Bohn. Bach, Maharishi, & much more help on the path to cross the bridge.

prefer to be ignorant of your disease of invention and your debauchery of confused ideas. 
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.     Paul Valery

            MUSIC is a higher evaluation than all wisdom and philosophy.
            MUSIC is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
             MUSIC should stroke fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of women.                          Ludwig van Beethoven

             Whatever it is about you that disturbs people, cultivate that, because that is who you really are.                                    JEAN COCTEAU

               THOUGHT has been constantly evolving and we can’t say when that system began.                                                    David Bohm

                  The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it. 
                                                               Swami Satchidananda

YOJU TEACH BEST WHAT YOU BEST NEED TO LEARN.         RICHARD BACH

                         MAMA FELT VERY SAFE.             ISABELLA ROSSILINI

I’ve always felt that I and many of the people I admire are figments of our own imagination.   Kris Kristoferson

It’s all about vision. Inner vision. I don’t typically work from the outside world. 
       The great hidden tradition in painting is time and art historians miss it consistently — time and the unfolding of awareness. The movement of consciousness is the real subject of a lot of old master paintings.                                         Bill Viola

I want to write about something that would apply to any time because it’s a state of the soul.                                Edna O’brien

A MUSICIAN’S SPECIAL FLAVOR COMES OUT WITH AGE.         SEIJI OZAWA

You’re just lucky to be conscious for a limited amount of time and what you’re able to do with your consciousness is up to you. You don’t win anything.There’s nothing to win.                  Frank Stella

TOTALITARIANISM IS PATRIOTISM INSTITUTIONALIZED.       STEVE ALLEN

PEACE IS THE INNER NATURE OF HUMANKIND. If you find it within yourself, you will find it everywhere.  
      Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. 
                                                   Ramana Maharishi

                                   Denis Johnson’s three rules to write by:
               Write naked. That means to write what you would never say.
                  Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can’t waste it.
                 Write in exile. As if you are never going to get home again
                           and you have to call back every detail.

HATRED is a transformative power. It can make the innocuous into the menacing. 
              Racism is endemic to the human condition — just as stupidity is.
                                                               Shelby Steele

THE GOAL OF ART WAS THE VITAL EXPRESSION OF SELF. 
        When I make a picture I make love.        Alfred Steiglitz

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love & death. E.M.Forster

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. 
                                                       Maria Edgeworth

Social platforms are a social conscience. And influencers are digital stewards of that conscience.

IT IS NOT THE STRENGTH OF THE BODY THAT COUNTS BUT THE STRENGTH OF THE SPIRIT.                        J.R.R. TOLKIEN

           To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.
TRUTH IS THE OFFSPRING OF SILENCE & MEDITATION. Issac Newton

          You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely, in the round.
The external world is so intense now that the internal almost gets drowned out.
      The sacred is not a sanctuary — it’s a force field. In many ways a forest fire.
                                                           Pico Iyer

As an actress I’m drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms & I’m fortunate to have thoughts & feelings at my fingertips. Diane Keaton


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