“And if my mind breaks up
In all so many ways
I know the meaning of
The words, “I love you””
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
King of Trees
Song lyrics, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974)
"Fidelity"
Begin to Hope (2006)
Context: I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart...
“And if my mind breaks up
In all so many ways
I know the meaning of
The words, “I love you””
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
King of Trees
Song lyrics, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974)
“When I hear Kannada, my heart leaps up and I am all ears.”
Kuvempu (1904–1994) Kannada novelist, poet, playwright, critic, and thinker
Quoted in A Few inches of Ivory, 24 November 2013, Jstor Organization http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/23001425?uid=3738256&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102981873241,
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: With clarity and quiet, I look upon the world and say: All that I see, hear, taste, smell, and touch are the creations of my mind.
The sun comes up and the sun goes down in my skull. Out of one of my temples the sun rises, and into the other the sun sets.
The stars shine in my brain; ideas, men, animals browse in my temporal head; songs and weeping fill the twisted shells of my ears and storm the air for a moment.
“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”
Loung Ung (1970) American academic
Source: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938) Indian bansuri player
On hearing a performance on a woodwind by Pandit Bhola Nath of Varanasi.
My father's wrestling techniques made my lungs strong: Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hatshepsut (-1507–-1458 BC) Egyptian Pharaoh
Hor-watit signifies "the only Horus
Djeser-Djeseru inscriptions
Context: Hear ye, all persons! Ye people as many as ye are! I have done things according to the design of my heart. … I have restored that which was in ruins, I have raised up that which was unfinished since the Asiatics were in the midst of the Northland, and the barbarians were in the midst of them, overthrowing that which was made, while they ruled in ignorance of Re. He did not do according to the divine command until my majesty. When I was firm upon the throne of Re, I was ennobled until the two periods of years... I came as Hor-watit flaming against my enemies.
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: I put my body through its paces like a war horse; I keep it lean, sturdy, prepared. I harden it and I pity it. I have no other steed.
I keep my brain wide awake, lucid, unmerciful. I unleash it to battle relentlessly so that, all light, it may devour the darkness of the flesh. I have no other workshop where I may transform darkness into light.
I keep my heart flaming, courageous, restless. I feel in my heart all commotions and all contradictions, the joys and sorrows of life. But I struggle to subdue them to a rhythm superior to that of the mind, harsher than that of my heart — to the ascending rhythm of the Universe.