KOAN: A PARADOX TO BE MEDITATED UPON that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason & to force them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment. merriam-webster
TRUE CREATIVITY. often starts where language ends.
THE PRINCIPLE mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ARTHUR KOESTLER
ALL COMEDIANS ARE ANARCHISTS. Our job is to make fun of the existing world. BOB NEWHART
THOSE WHO LIVE, LIVE OFF THE DEAD. ANTONIN ARTAUD
MAN can starve from self-realization as much as they can from lack of bread.
RICHARD WRIGHT
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Sr. 1809-1894 “Old Ironsides””Reflections of a Proud Pedestrian””The Dorchester Giant” “The Height of the Ridiculous”.
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
TO LOVE IS TO ADMIRE WITH THE HEART;
TO ADMIRE IS TO LOVE WITH THE MIND.
Theophile Gautier
LIFE is always full of challenges. I believe you’re never happy unless you’re consistently making challenges for yourself.
TRUST YOUR ABILITY. ISAAK PERLMAN
IMAGINATION IS BUT ANOTHER NAME FOR SUPER INTELLIGENCE.
Edgar Rice Burroughs.
JAGGI VESUDVE -1957–“Inner Engineering””Taste of Well-Being”.
THE ONLY REASON YOU ARE UNHAPPY IS BECAUSE YOU ARE TRYING TO BE HAPPY.
FRUSTRATION, discouragement and depression mean you are working against yourself.
DO NOT TRY TO FIX whatever comes in you life. fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes you will be fine.
THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE IS DECIDED BY HOW PEACEFUL & JOYFUL YOU ARE.
WHATEVER HAPPENS – – ULTIMATELY LIFE CORRECTS ITSELF.
MARC BEKOFF – 1945 – -“Animals Matter””The Emotional Lives of Animals”.
OFTEN the greater our ignorance about something — the greater our resistance to change.
ALTHOUGH other animals may be different from us — this does not make then LESS than us.
LET US use our brain to move toward compassion and away from cruelty — to feel empathy rather than cold indifference — to feel animas’ pain in our hearts.
ALL ANIMALS, including humans have a right to lives of dignity & respect without forced intrusions.
ANIMALS are not property or “things” but rather living organisms subjects of a life who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship and support.
SONNY ROLLINS 1930–Master Jazz Musician – – – Great man.————–
MUSIC REPRESENTS NATURE. NATURE REPRESENTS LIFE. JAZZ REPRESENTS NATURE. JAZZ IS LIFE.
I WANT TO BE CONNECTING WITH THE SUBCONSCIOUS.
NO ONE IS ORIGINAL. EVERYONE IS DERIVATIVE.
IMPROVISATION IS THE ABILITY TO CREATE SOMETHING VERY SPIRITUAL — SOMETHING OF ONE’S OWN.
You can’t think & play at the same time.
I KNOW WHEN I FIND THE ULTIMATE SOUND.
I THINK we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this SUICIDE on the planet & everybody is just using up all our natural resources like a bunch of insane people.