Veiled And Hidden

Miles Davis / John Coltrane: Sweden...1960

Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self.

Cannonball Adderly: Switzerland and Germany...1963

Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near; and though only the breath of your breath reaches her heart, the shadow of your shadow crosses her face, and the echo of your faintest cry becomes a spring and an autumn in her breast.

Charles Mingus: Belgium, Norway and Sweden...1964

And life is veiled and hidden,
even as your greater self
is hidden and veiled.
Yet when Life speaks,
all the winds become words;
and when she speaks again,
the smiles upon your lips
and the tears in your eyes
turn also into words.
When she sings, the deaf hear
and are held;
and when she comes walking,
the sightless behold her
and are amazed
and follow her
in wonder and astonishment.

--Kahlil Gibran
The Garden of The Prophet

Thelonious Monk: Norway and Denmark...1966