What if you slept? And what if,
in your sleep you dreamed?
And what if, in your dream,
you went to heaven and there plucked
a strange and beautiful flower?
And what if, when you awoke,
you had the flower in your hand.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(previous post from April 2003. and btw, this was taken in a pub in Montreal called Ye Ole Orchard. it was a GIANT violin suspended from the ceiling.)

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations
which merely circle the ineffible idea I seek to express. Caldwell O’Keefe

(previous post from July, 2003)

A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest–a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein