Miracle: An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.
Only a spiritual being has awareness.
My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.
You've got to create the space, then fill it.
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right.
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.
somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do
I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.
Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.