Follow the Sun

 Follow the Sun

"Breath, breath in the air

Set your intentions

Treat them with care

Tomorrow's a new day for everyone"

Xavier Rudd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1bNmyPWww

Follow, follow the sun
And which way the wind blows
When this day is done
Breathe, breathe in the air
Set your intentions
Treat them with care
Tomorrow’s a new day for everyone
A brand new moon and brand new sun

Follow, follow the sun
The direction of the birds
The direction of love
Breathe, breathe in the air
Cherish this moment
Cherish this breath
Tomorrow’s a new day for everyone
A brand new moon and brand new sun

When you feel life coming down on you like a heavy weight
When you feel this crazy society adding to the strain
Take a stroll to the nearest water’s edge, remember your place
Many moons have risen and fallen long, long before you came
So which way is the wind blowing
What does your heart say

Follow, follow the sun
And which way the wind blows
When this day is done

Xavier Rudd

Look for me

 Somewhere Down the Crazy River

Robbie Robertson

"Catch the blue train

 to places never been before

look for me

somewhere down the crazy river" 

isn't that the ride called life... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KP9PNSUME4

Yeah, I can see it now
The distant red neon shivered in the heat
I was feeling like a stranger in a strange land
You know where people play games with the night
God, it was too hot to sleep

I followed the sound of a jukebox coming from up the levee
All of a sudden I could hear somebody whistling
From right behind me
I turned around and she said
"Why do you always end up down at Nick's Cafe?"
I said "Uh, I don't know, the wind just kind of pushed me this way."
She said "Hang the rich."

Catch the blue train
To places never been before
Look for me
Somewhere down the crazy river
- Somewhere down the crazy river
Catch the blue train
All the way to Kokomo
You can find me
Somewhere down the crazy river
- Somewhere down the crazy river

Take a picture of this
The fields are empty, abandoned '59 Chevy
Laying in the back seat listening to Little Willie John
Yeah, that's when time stood still
You know, I think I'm gonna go down to Madam X
And let her read my mind
She said "That Voodoo stuff don't do nothing for me."

I'm a man with a clear destination
I'm a man with a broad imagination
You fog the mind, you stir the soul
I can't find,... no control

Catch the blue train
To places never been before
Look for me
Somewhere down the crazy river
- Somewhere down the crazy river
Catch the blue train
All the way to Kokomo
You can find me
Somewhere down the crazy river
- Somewhere down the crazy river

Wait, did you hear that
Oh this is sure stirring up some ghosts for me
She said "There's one thing you've got to learn
Is not to be afraid of it."
I said "No, I like it, I like it, it's good."
She said "You like it now
But you'll learn to love it later."

I been spellbound - falling in trances
I been spellbound - falling in trances
You give me the shivers - chills and fever
You give me the shivers
You give me the shivers
I been spellbound - somewhere down the crazy river
Somewhere down the crazy river

Somewhere...somewhere...somewhere

Cheers

Jeanne

Now you are free

 "This Is The Sea"

The Waterboys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAiOjxkCS0g

These things you keep
You'd better throw them away
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days
Once you were tethered
And now you are free
Once you were tethered
Well now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea!

Now if you're feelin' weary
If you've been alone too long
Maybe you've been suffering from
A few too many
Plans that have gone wrong
And you're trying to remember
How fine your life used to be
Running around banging your drum
Like it's 1973
Well that was the river
This is the sea!
Wooo!

Now you say you've got trouble
You say you've got pain
You say've got nothing left to believe in
Nothing to hold on to
Nothing to trust
Nothing but chains
You've been scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
Scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
But that was the river
This is the sea yeah!

Now I can see you wavering
As you try to decide
You've got a war in your head
And it's tearing you up inside
You're trying to make sense
Of something that you just don't see
Trying to make sense now
And you know you once held the key
But that was the river
And this is the sea!
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

Now I hear there's a train
It's coming on down the line
It's yours if you hurry
You've got still enough time
And you don't need no ticket
And you don't pay no fee
No you don't need no ticket
You don't pay no fee
Because that was the river
And this is the sea!

Behold the sea!

Cheers
Jeanne

Ooh Child May 28th 2026

 Ooh Child

This song started playing in my head as I was skiing down the third run of our first day at Revelstoke on a leg that I did not want to admit was broken.

Things can get bad and then they can get better, and we can help them get better by the stories we tell ourselves. To me this is the ultimate song to have playing in our head whenever we're in pain or things are not going our way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lpgWvY8mxI

Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh child
Things'll get brighter

Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh child
Things'll get brighter

Some day, yeah
We'll put it together and we'll get it undone
Some day
When your head is much lighter
Some day, yeah
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

Ooh child
Things are gonna be easier
Ooh child
Things'll be brighter

Ooh child
Things are gonna be easier
Ooh child
Things'll be brighter

Some day, yeah
We'll put it together and we'll get it undone
Some day
When your head is much lighter

Some day, yeah
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

Some day, some day, some day, some day yeah
We'll put it together and we'll get it undone
Some day
When your head is much lighter

Some day, yeah
We'll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun
Some day
When the world is much brighter

Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh child
Things'll get brighter

Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier
Ooh child
Things'll get brighter
(Right now)
Oh yeah
(Right now)
Oh baby
(Right now) and you just wait and see how things are gonna be
(Right now) if you just wait and see how things are gonna be
(Right now) if you just wait and wait and see

The Five Stairsteps

Bittersweet Symphony

 Bittersweet Symphony

"But I'm a million different people from one day to the next" 

https://youtu.be/1lyu1KKwC74?si=1yXRIlbUMZ55YwKb 

'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life
Tryna make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah

No change, I can change
I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
But I'm a million different people
From one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
(Have you ever been down?)

Well, I've never prayed but tonight I'm on my knees, yeah
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airwaves are clean and there's nobody singin' to me now

No change, I can change
I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
And I'm a million different people
From one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no
(Have you ever been down?)
I can't change, oh, no
I can't change, oh

'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life
Tryna make ends meet, tryna find somebody then you die
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah

You know I can change, I can change
I can change, I can change
But I'm here in my mold
I am here in my mold
And I'm a million different people
From one day to the next
I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no

I can't change my mold
No, no, no, no, no,
I can't change my mold, no, no, no, no
It's just sex and violence, melody and silence
It's just sex and violence, melody and silence
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down
Been down
Ever been down
Ever been down
Ever been down
Ever been down
Have you ever been down?
Have you ever been down?
Have you ever been down?

Written by: Richard Ashcroft

Grace

 Taking a moment of peace to reflect on Grace

Grace

She takes the blame
She covers the shame
Removes the stain
It could be her name

Grace
It's the name for a girl
It's also a thought that
Changed the world

And when she walks on the street
You can hear the strings
Grace finds goodness
In everything

Grace
She's got the walk
Not on a ramp or on chalk
She's got the time to talk

She travels outside
Of karma, karma
She travels outside
Of karma

When she goes to work
You can hear her strings
Grace finds beauty
In everything

Grace
She carries a world on her hips
No champagne flute for her lips
No twirls or skips between her fingertips

She carries a pearl
In perfect condition
What once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stings

Because Grace makes beauty
Out of ugly things

Grace finds beauty
In everything

Grace finds goodness in everything

U2

Cheers

Jeanne

Waterfall

 It's okay to not do or be everything. And we need to hear this sometimes

Check out this version with Serena Ryder and Melissa Etheridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmmzOnTWIc4

Waterfall Lyrics

It's too heavy a load
Oh, it's too heavy a load
Let it go before your back gets broke
It's too heavy a load

Must be hard to stand up straight
With the weight that's on your back
Must be hard to hold the ocean in your arms
Don't be scared to spill a drop and open up
Baby, we can talk if you wanna talk

Don't always got to be strong
Baby, let it fall, like a waterfall
Love you the most of all
When you let it fall (let it fall), like a waterfall (like a waterfall)

It's too heavy a load
Oh, it's too heavy a load
Let it go before your back gets broke
It's too heavy a load

Love is not a tender thing
Pull your strings until you snap

It can overflow the ocean in your heart
If you're drowning and it feels like it's too much
Baby, we can talk, if you wanna talk

Don't always got to be strong
Baby, let it fall, like a waterfall
Love you the most of all
When you let it fall (let it fall), like a waterfall (like a waterfall)

You can let it fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall (fall)
You can let it fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall (fall)

Let it fall
Like a waterfall
Let it fall
Like a waterfall

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Simon Wilcox / Serena Lauren Ryder / Gordie Sampson / Thomas A.w.g. Salter

Cheers

Jeanne

ghost in the mirror

 Weighty Ghost by Wintersleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqJxjR-jBbU

 This song always grabs me. 

It reminds me of when I catch a glimpse of a past me in a reflection and I go back to look but that person is gone

... of when I remember something that happened a long time ago and realize that me is still somewhere inside but everything is different

... of dreams that I sense I've dreamed but can't bring to my consciousness when I'm awake

I wonder where that me went, and am amazed at how swiftly I transform in my life from real to a ghost

"Weighty Ghost"

I got out of bed today, swear to God, I couldn't see my face
I got out of bed today, staring at a ghost
Who forgot to float away, didn't have all that much to say
Wouldn't even tell me his own name
And where'd my body go

Where, oh, where'd my body go?
Africa or Mexico?
Where, oh, where'd my body go?
Where'd my body go?

Have you seen my ghost?
Seen my ghost, seen my ghost?
Oh, have you seen my ghost
Staring at the ground?
Have you seen my ghost?
Seen my ghost, seen my ghost?
Oh, have you seen my ghost?
Sick of those goddamn clouds

Are you some kind of medicine man?
Cut the demons out of my head
You can't kill something that's already dead
So leave my soul alone
I don't need no surgery
Take those knives away from me
Just wanna die in my own body
A ghost just needs a home

Have you seen my ghost?
Seen my ghost, seen my ghost?
Oh, have you seen my ghost
Staring at the ground?
Have you seen my ghost?
Seen my ghost, seen my ghost?
Oh, have you seen my ghost?
Sick of those goddamn clouds

Awake my Soul

 Awake My Soul

Mumford and Sons

I will never tire of this song! 

Here is a youtube link where Jon Batiste plays with Mumford and Sons 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjM6Jbd__Qc

How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes
I struggle to find any truth in your lies
And now my heart stumbles on things I don't know
My weakness I feel I must finally show

Lend me your hand and we'll conquer them all
But lend me your heart and I'll just let you fall
Lend me your eyes I can change what you see
But your soul you must keep, totally free

Har har, har har, har har, har har

Awake my soul
Awake my soul

How fickle my heart and how woozy my eyes
I struggle to find any truth in your lies
And now my heart stumbles on things I don't know
My weakness I feel I must finally show

Har har, har har, har har, har har

In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
And where you invest your love, you invest your life
In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
And where you invest your love, you invest your life

Awake my soul
Awake my soul
Awake my soul
For you were made to meet your maker

Awake my soul
Awake my soul
Awake my soul
For you were made to meet your maker
You were made to meet your maker

Songwriters: Edward James Milton Dwane / Winston Aubrey Aladar Marshall / Benjamin Walter David Lovett / Marcus Oliver Johnstone Mumford

The Beat Goes ON

From 1967 The Beat Goes On sung by Sonny and Cher is one of those songs I loved to listen to but never really looked at the words, until I was looking for songs to sing for a duet for a Karaoke night. Although we didn't choose it (we sang John Prine - In Spite of Ourselves in case you're wondering) the music and the lyrics stick with me. I can visualize each poignant image and although the images from the sixties have morphed over the years human actions and emotions haven't. Now that I'm a grandma, when I reminisce I get tears thinking about how people still go off to war and check the baseball score and there are more and more of us are homeless and not able to feed our children while those of us who can consume on a larger scale and vehicles are still going faster and faster Everything accelerates but nothing really changes... 

The beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da

Charleston was once the rage, uh huh
History has turned the page, uh huh
The mini skirts, the current thing, uh huh
Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh

And the beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da

The grocery store's the super mart, uh huh
Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh
And men still keep on marching off to war
Electrically they keep a baseball score

And the beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da

Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss
The cars keep going faster all the time
Bums still cry, "Hey buddy, have you got a dime?"

And the beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da

And the beat goes on, yes, the beat goes on
And the beat goes on, and the beat goes on
The beat goes on, and the beat goes onWriter/s: Sonny Bono

Two and "Three Little Birds"

 Here's a song that immediately puts a bounce in my step,

Happy Thursday everyone

Three Little Birds

Bob Marley

"Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright"
Singing, "Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright!"

Rise up this morning, smiled with the rising sun
Three little birds pitch by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
Saying, "This is my message to you-ou-ou"

Singing, "Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright"
Singing, "Don't worry about a thing (Don't worry)
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright!"

Rise up this morning, smiled with the rising sun
Three little birds pitch by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs of melodies pure and true
Saying, "This is my message to you-ou-ou"

Singing, "Don't worry about a thing (Worry about a thing, oh)
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright (Don't worry)
Singing, "Don't worry about a thing (I won't worry)
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright!"
Singing, "Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright (I won't worry)
Singing, "Don't worry about a thing
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright!"
Singing, "Don't worry about a thing (Don't worry about a thing)
'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright


Thanks to Dexter Swope for correcting these lyrics.
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This song is one of Bob Marley's most popular songs.
Tony Gilbert, a friend of Bob Marley, explained a possible source of inspiration for this song, saying, "Bob got inspired by a lot of things around him, he observed life. I remember the three little birds. They were pretty birds, canaries, who would come by the windowsill at Hope Road."
Marcia Griffiths from a reggae group I Threes had her own explanation of this song's source. They did shows with Marley and she recalled, "After the song was written, Bob would always refer to us as the Three Little Birds. After a show, there would be an encore, sometimes people even wanted us to go back onstage four times. Bob would still want to go back and he would say, 'What is my Three Little Birds saying?'"
Jason Mraz used to perform this song in conjunction with his song "I'm Yours" in concerts.
Ziggy Marley and Sean Paul recorded a cover of this song for the animated film "Shark Tale" (2004).
Connie Talbot made a cover of this song as her first single from the album "Over the Rainbow" (2007). She also released a music video which was filmed in Jamaica.

AZLyrics B Bob Marley Lyrics

Where do the Children Play

 

Where Do the Children Play?

Well, I think it's fine, building jumbo planes
Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
Switch on summer from a slot machine
Yes, get what you want to if you want
'Cause you can get anything

I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well, you roll on roads over fresh green grass
For your lorry loads pumping petrol gas
And you make them long, and you make them tough
But they just go on and on, and it seems that you can't get off

Oh, I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?

Well, you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air
But will you keep on building higher
'Til there's no more room up there
Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?

I know we've come a long way
We're changing day to day
But tell me, where do the children play?

Cat Stevens

This video was made in 2020, fifty years after the original song came out.

https://youtu.be/nBCJhNiKhFE

Cheers

Jeanne

Under Pressure

 Relevant and sadly timeless 

Under Pressure

Mmm num ba de
Dum bum ba be
Doo buh dum ba beh beh

Pressure: pushing down on me
Pressing down on you, no man ask for
Under pressure that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets

Um ba ba be
Um ba ba be
De day da
Ee day da

That's OK

That's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming
"Let me out!"

Tomorrow gets me higher
Pressure on people, people on streets

Day day de mm hm
Da da da ba ba
OK

Chippin' around, kick my brains 'round the floor
These are the days: it never rains but it pours

Ee do ba be
Ee da ba ba ba
Um bo bo
Be lap

People on streets
Ee da de da de
People on streets
Ee da de da de da de da

It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends screaming
"Let me out!"

Tomorrow gets me higher, higher, high!
Pressure on people, people on streets

Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence, but it don't work
Keep coming up with love, but it's so slashed and torn

Why, why, why!?

Love, love, love, love, love

Insanity laughs under pressure
We're breaking

Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Why can't we give love, give love, give love, give love, give love, give love, give love, give love, give love?

'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves

Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure

WRITERS

David Bowie, John Richard Deacon, Brian Harold May, Freddie Mercury, Roger Meddows Taylor

original video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QQZyl-_I

Freddie Mercury and Queen 1981 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3gax_Z7tw

Cheers
Jeanne

Hello in There

 "You know that old trees just grow stronger

And old rivers grow wilder every day
Old people just grow lonesome
Waiting for someone to say
"Hello in there, hello"

So if you're walkin' down the street sometime
And spot some hollow, ancient eyes
Please don't just pass 'em by and stare
As if you didn't care
Say, "Hello in there, hello""

John Prine

https://www.thehellointherefoundation.org

He Ain't Heavy

 

Hi everyone,

I've loved my ritual of sharing a quote each Thursday with you over the years (a couple decades for some of you). 

Now old songs and lyrics are calling me, I hear them echo through the years...when will we ever learn?

So, in 2026 I will be sharing song lyrics as much as quotes.

Stay well and Try to Love One Another right now

He Ain't Heavy He's my Brother

"… The road is long

With many a winding turn
That leads us to who knows where, who knows where
But I'm strong
Strong enough to carry him
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

… So on we go
His welfare is of my concern
No burden is he to bear
We'll get there

… For I know
He would not encumber me
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

… If I'm laden at all
I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart
Isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another

… It's a long, long road
From which there is no return
While we're on the way to there
Why not share?

… And the load
Doesn't weigh me down at all
He ain't heavy, he's my brother

… He's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother
He ain't heavy, he's my brother"

Songwriters: Bob Russell / Bobby Scott
Song by The Hollies ‧ 1969

Perfection

 "Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved."

W. Somerset Maugham

Thoughts: 

I used to want to be perfect ... until I tried to determine what the heck perfection is.

And I never really got anywhere with that until I started thinking about who my heroes were;

Gilda Radner, Toni Morrison and my great aunt Edith

Angela Merkel, Barbara Streisand, and my gammy and my mom

And the qualities I admire about these women is their sincerity, faith in their own values and dreams, and their humour, empathy and caring. Their unapologetic commitment to being themselves whether they were thought different, ridiculous, wrong, egotistical, or any of those other feelings I wanted to avoid by being perfect. 

And my belief that pleasing others was the goal to strive for eroded and the weight of always trying to be perfect lifted. (Which was a big relief because it is really hard to be perfectly something that is defined by what others think)

And so continues my evolution 

Cheers

Jeanne

Meditate and learn

 "Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over."

Brandi Carlile
 

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
Confucius

Thoughts: 

I think the beauty of meditating is that it shuts our thinking brain off a bit and opens us to hearing different things which may lead to learning something that was not in our consciousness previously.

And how nice, we don't have to sit cross legged in a dark, quiet room and focus on our breathing to achieve this state.

9/11

 On this day in 2001, Brian Sweeney was aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 175, moments before it would crash into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. In what would be his final act, he left a voicemail for his wife that continues to move us 24 years later.

“I just want you to know I absolutely love you,” Sweeney told his wife’s voicemail. “I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I’ll see you when you get here.”

(above excerpt from Ryan Holiday Daily Stoic message September 11th 2025)

Thoughts: To me this is the light in the dark and as long as there is a glimmer of love even in the darkest of circumstances it can be nurtured and fanned into strength by those who choose to hear beyond fear, hate and terrorist acts.

Fools

 "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

Richard P. Feynman

"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."
Richard P. Feynman

Thoughts: 

How easy to fool ourselves when we are busy trying to prove ourselves right (or left or even somewhere in between). 

Life is not about trying to prove that our view is the correct one, and yet we waste a lot of energy trying to keep our beliefs intact and protecting them from anything different. 

What you believe is your choice, and if you want to share it without trying to convince me, and with respect and curiousity, I want to hear it. That is the way I learn things outside my experience.

how much good inside a day

“How many slams in an old screen door? 

Depends how loud you shut it. 

How many slices in a bread? 

Depends how thin you cut it. 

How much good inside a day? 

Depends how good you live 'em. 

How much love inside a friend? 

Depends how much you give 'em.”

Shel Silverstein

 

Where the light gets in

 "Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything .That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen

Thoughts: I'm just now learning the lyrics to some of my favourite songs, expect more!!

Shift

 Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Thoughts: 

My thoughts are expressed by Benjamin Hoff in the Tao of Pooh (referring to Winnie the Pooh)

“Within each of us there is an Owl, a Rabbit, an Eeyore, and a Pooh. For too long, we have chosen the way of Owl and Rabbit. Now, like Eeyore, we complain about the results. But that accomplishes nothing. If we are smart, we will choose the way of Pooh. As if from far away, it calls to us with the voice of a child's mind. It may be hard to hear at times, but it is important just the same, because without it, we will never find our way through the forest.”
Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“In order to take control of our lives and accomplish something of lasting value, sooner or later we need to learn to believe. We don't need to shift our responsibilities onto the shoulders of some deified spiritual superman or sit around and wait for fate to come knocking on our door. We simply need to believe in the power that's within us, and use it. When we do that, and stop imitating others and competing against them, things begin to work for us.”

 Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh