Drumsound rises on the air,its throb, my heart.
A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired,but come. This is the way." – Jeláluddín Rúmí

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."~Ovid
"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand."
Jose Ortega y Gasset
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder."
M.C. Escher
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting
for our wits to grow sharper."
Eden Phillpotts
"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
Julia Cameron
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."~Albert Einstein
"The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery."~Francis Bacon

"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." Henry Emerson Fosdick

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
Kilgore Trout (Kurt Vonnegut)

"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is."
Ludwig Wittgenstein

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." André Gide
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)
"It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere." Written in the dust on the back of a bus. Wickenburg, Arizona.
"We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares.
We just go!" Marlon Brando, The Wild One (1954)
"If you're not where you are, you're nowhere!"
"Colonel Potter" from a M*A*S*H episode
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." ~Confucius
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. "Karl "The Great" Wallenda
"The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!Feels at each thread, and lives along the line."Alexander Pope (1688-1744
"We carry with us the wonders we seek without us."
Sir Thomas Browne
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Is it any wonder that the world is filled with pain
when we set aside the beauty for our own material gain?

Is it any wonder that lovers’ hearts grow dim
when we do not hold in honor the love we find within?

Is it any wonder that the homeless are weak and frail
when we put them out of house and home to seek another trail?

Is it any wonder that nature falls to ruin and rubble
because we take with no return allowing it to crumble?

Is it any wonder that children are lead astray
because we did not take the time to show the proper way?

Is it any wonder that evil is strong and bold
when we do not see goodness and let our hearts grow cold?

Is it any wonder racism flourishes, my friend,
when we do not see PEOPLE, but just the color of skin?

Is it any wonder that friendships die and fade
when we forget the reasons in which they were first made?

Is it any wonder our world is scarred and polluted
when we allow our industries to strip it as they’re suited?

Is it any wonder there is such depression and sorrow
when we do not seem to care what will happen tomorrow?

Is it any wonder we do not see the values of our brothers
when we hold our own selves above the needs of others?

Is it any wonder our world is like it is
when we sit and grumble with actions we don’t give?

Is it any wonder we wait in fear of Judgment Day
when we do the things we do, then forget to pray?