Truth

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

Theism and atheism: two sides of the same bad penny…

https://thepeaceresource.com/tag/existentialism/

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
― Edgar Allan Poe

https://youtu.be/2VgdtTRZhag?list=RD2VgdtTRZhag
Dead Flowers – Townes Van Zandt

“I’m gonna live till I die.”
― Frank Sinatra

https://youtu.be/YFlbkNvatPU?list=RDYFlbkNvatPU
Tom Waits – Flower’s Grave

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

https://youtu.be/RNMFXRy51Vo?list=RDRNMFXRy51Vo
John Lee Hooker – Graveyard Blues (1959)

“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

“Music is my religion.”
― Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix – Axis: Bold as Love

https://youtu.be/fATTe77Dcbo?list=RDfATTe77Dcbo
Lay Some Flowers On My Grave – BLIND WILLIE McTELL’

“I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”
― Warren Zevon

https://thepeaceresource.com/2021/05/04/death-blues/

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
― Anaïs Nin

https://youtu.be/rnk8WKhYW4o?list=RDrnk8WKhYW4o
J.J. Cale – I Got the Same Old Blues

“The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.”
― Dave Barry

https://thewordsmithcollection.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/fear-blind-faith-and-ignorance-vs-education-science-and-courage/

“There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.”
― Frank Zappa

Religion

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
― Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)

https://thepeaceresource.com/2015/04/23/mystery-imagination-and-small-wisdom/

Courage

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

https://youtu.be/I-3M-xi5n1c?list=RDI-3M-xi5n1c
Everything Must Change

“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
― William Wordsworth

Faith, Hope, and Love…

“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”
― Michelangelo

Blessings we bestow upon one another, comforting words or a nod, wink, hug or simple touch… are more important than prayer and more essential than worship. …

https://youtu.be/_aII2lzeepI?list=RD_aII2lzeepI
Tom Waits – Blind Love

Love works unconditionally…

… The rest is commentary, art, science or fiction…

https://thepeaceresource.com/2015/02/03/spiritual-and-religious-ideas/

“Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.”
― John Lennon

https://thepeaceresource.com/2015/01/16/love/

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
―James A. Baldwin

https://youtu.be/A7bqnDnq8QM
BILLIE HOLIDAY – TRAVELLIN LIGHT

“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
―Voltaire

https://youtu.be/4-apz26BfHY?list=RD4-apz26BfHY&t=30
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session 1983

“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.”
― Albert Camus

“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.”

Luis Bunuel

“I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.”
― J.G. Ballard