“Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.” ShouldTwoSleepWonderWonderfulAcceptanceCreatingWake UpPlantLifetimeContemplationTwo ThingsWonderful ThingsGoing To SleepSkullsGloomySkeletonsManureCreating LifeAcceptance Of Death Author:Alan Watts
“I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.” ThinkingMindHumansAgeCertainLosesHuman BeingsNiceWonderfulAcceptanceYouthGainsFairsPeace Of MindStamina Author:Cherie Lunghi
“Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.” WonderfulAcceptanceProgramJazzUniversityInternationalTexas Author:Dave Brubeck