"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."
~ Rumi

“...unless you make yourself equal to God, you cannot understand God; for the like is not intelligible save to the like. Make yourself grow to a greatness beyond measure, by a bound free yourself from the body; Raise yourself above all time, become Eternity: then you will understand God. Believe that nothing is impossible for you, think yourself immortal and capable of understanding all, the arts, all sciences, higher than the highest height, descend lower than the lowest depth. Draw into yourself all sensations of everything created, fire and water, dry and moist, imagining that you are everywhere, on earth, in the sea, in the sky, that you are not yet born, in the maternal womb, adolescent, old, dead, beyond death. If you embrace in your thought all things at once, times, places, substances, qualities, quantities, you may understand God.”
~ Hermes Trismegistus

Others have been down the road before and have passed on what they have learned.
The great song traveler passed me here
And he opened my eyes to the view
And I was among those who called him a prophet
And I asked him what was true
'Til the distance has shown
How the road remains alone
Now I'm looking in my life
For a truth to call my own
And I looked to the sky for my anthem
And the words and the music came through
But words and music will never touch
The beauty that I've seen
Looking into you - and that's true.
~ Jackson Browne

If you can't beat em', arrange to have them beaten.

"Music is important."
~ E. Handler

"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."
~ Denis Diderot

"We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we had come a long way, no one would be calling us "baby"."
~ Elizabeth Janeway

"Don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free......
~ Ween

"What You Fear In The Night In The Day Comes To Call Anyway"
~ A.D. Counting Crows

"It's really silly when fans are making pie graphs about set list openers. But then again, I always liked a good graph."
~ Mike Gordon

Don't give me attitude, sir. See you assume that I won't shoot your sorry ass. And everyone knows when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of 'u' and 'umption'.
~ Samuel L . Jackson The Long Kiss Goodnight

out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. i'll meet you there.
~ rumi

"To know that you do not know is the best...To say that you know when you do not is a disease."
~ Yun men

"i was taught a month ago, to buy my time and take it slow. then i learned just yesterday, to rush and never waste the day. things are true that i forget, no one taught that to me yet"

"My lies were true when I gave them to you."
~ Lovechild

"C'mon, nobody's the next anybody!"
~ Jon Fishman

"I must despise the world which does not realize that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
~ Ludwig van...

"Save the world so we'll have someplace to boogy. "
~ Merl Saunders

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

How many buttloads are in a fuckload, and are the units metric?

"A girl's best friend is her mother."

"To look up is joy."
~ Confucious

"Everybody laughs in the same language."

"When we are grown we'll smile and say we had no cares in childhood's day~but we'll be wrong, twill not be true, I've this much care....I care for you."
~ Anonymous

The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
(1Samuel 16:7)

"you have to laugh at yourself, you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't"
~ e. saliers

"It's not the men in your life that count, it's the life in your men."
~ Mae West

"Ancient bonds are breaking, moving on and changing sides. Dreaming of a new day, cast aside the other way. Magic vision stirring, kindled by and burning Flames rise in Her eyes."
~ Burning Bridges from Obscured By Clouds - Pink Floyd

If you cannot change your mind, are you sure you have one? We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
~ Willy Wonka

"Orchards are simple. A peach tree says "'some of me will be juicy and some of me will be dry. I'm not growing for you, I grow because that's what I do.' " You always hear some person complain how dry their peach is, and the peach says "'it's not our fault you have no understanding of the proper use for dry peaches.'"
~ Tori Amos

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
~ Jonathan Winters

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
~ Chinese proverb

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
~ Neil Peart

"forget your troubles and dance!"
bob marley

Jesus loves you. Then again, so does Barney.

“The great end of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things”

"God save the child who rings that bell It may have one good ring baby, you can't tell One watch by night, one watch by day If you get confused listen to the music play...."
~ Grateful Dead

Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~ Albert Einstein

"Remembering is like a leaf unfolding on a sunny spring day."

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
~ Dr. Seuss

"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land, and say to the bulldozers,earthmovers, governments and corporations, 'Thus far and no farther'."
~ Uncle Ed Abbey

"No matter where you go, there you are."

"do all things with love."
~ Og Mandino

"Flowers are lovely;
Love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree."
~ Coleridge

"It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside."
~ anon

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair bit manifestations of strength and resolution.
~ Kahil Gibran

"We must become the change we want to see."
~ Mahatma Gandhi

all i need is music
music fills my soul
all i need is music
to make me whole
~ ekoostik hookah

The moment I jumped off of it, was the moment I touched down.
~ Alanis Morissette

"And these are the dreams we're dreaming off, a fierce embrace of the mighty love"
~ Casey Neill Trio

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity"
~ Irving Wallace

Everything crawl, creep, or fly
Just live until they die
I love you, honey you love me
Let's love each other through eternity
~ Bob Weir

All you need is love...all together now.... All you need is love love love is all you need
~ Beetles

ring the bells that still can ring
forget your perfect offering
there is a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in
~ leonard cohen

"I'd like to live a love I sing about in my song!"
~ BB King

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
~ Francis Bacon

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved."
~ George McDonald

"Life is just a chair of bowlies."

"Children are the keys of paradise."
~ Richard Henry Stoddard

"It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important."
~ Roger Dawson

"Always take the scenic route."

"To me a tree is more beautiful than a cathedral.
The tree is the kingdom of god on earth.
A tree is the pure land."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

"She who laughs lasts."

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane"
~ Jimmy Buffett

"I am not depressed.....it turns out my brain isn't Y2K compliant"

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
~ Margaret Mead

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~ Goethe

"without love in a dream it will never come true"
~ Hunter/Garcia

"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."

"Red eyes. Souls rising. May you venture where you know you shouldn't go."
~ Lovechild

"Someday, we'll walk in the light of a beautiful sun"

"Your work is to find your work and then give your heart to it"
~ Buddha

"All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"A happy family is heaven on Earth."

"To suceed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer."
~ Keith DeGreen

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

rage against the machine with a smile on your face and love in your heart

"These are the things we're dreaming off, a fierce embrace of might love"

Her gentle breast of
Supple earth awaits your head
Dear friend; Mother waits.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
~ John Lennon

"Old elephants go into the hills and die, Old americans drive themselves to death with big cars"
~ Hunter Thompson

"I'm crazy but I get the job done...I got my philosphy"
~ Ben Folds

"If you understood everything I said you'd be me."
~ Miles Davis

"Everything we do is in a circle,
and that is because the power of
the world works in circles,
and everything tries to be round.
The sky is round,
and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball,
and so are all the stars.
The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
Birds make their nests in circles,
for theirs is the same religion as ours.
The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle.
The moon does the same, and both are round.
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing,
and always come back again to where they were."
~ Black ELK.

"Good Funk, real funk is not played by four white guys from Vermont.. If anything, you could call what we're doing cow funk or something.."
~ Trey Anastasio

"Can we stop bickering amongst ourselves and tackle the real problem now?

"Dream to be happy...that's the best dream."

"Shake it, Shake it Sugaree"
~ Jerry Garcia

"I am the man who walks the hill side in the sweet summer sun. I am the man who brings you roses when you aint got none"
~ Phish Lovin Cup

"God is light, Light is good,Yea God is good"
~ moe.

"...And so it is that in the moment you pledge your highest love, you greet your greatest fear."
~ from "Conversations with God"

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
~ Albert Einstein, March 14, 1949

"The eye wants to sleep, but the head is no mattress."

"Something's deeply hidden had to be behind things."
~ Albert Einstein

"Its easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money..."
~ Jack Handy

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it..."
~ Jack Handy

"You find beauty in ordinary things; do not lose this ability..."
~ Chinese fortune

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow minded- ness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth."
~ Mark Twain

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
~ Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
~ Frank Zappa