This song about dreaming was written in 1892 by W. Lowell Phillips. Apologies to Mr. Phillips for changing the tune...it just kind of happened. "By and by, there will be a great awakening; Then we will know that this is all a great dream." Chuang Tzu "It is only when we wake from dreams that we know we have been dreaming." Paramahansa Yogananda

Taken from "Spring in The Orchard" by Grace L. Hosmer, 1914. Arrangement by me, inspired by a symphony of summer morning birds. WAKE!! WAKE!! "May all find their unique, sparkling place in the way of awakening; and may the practice of awakening go on endlessly." Traditional Soto Zen chant

Susan Savia, Composer A meditative song about meditation. Many spiritual and religious metaphors in this song. (See how many you can identify.) In the studio, I recorded this with a famous "OM" recording behind it, which explains all the space in the song. Due to copyright regulations, I couldn't use the OM track. I retained the song as is, and I think the space works well for a song about meditation.

Susan Savia, Composer A love song to all and the Lover of All Love, recognizing the Buddha Nature in all living beings. Inspired by the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. "If you think in terms of the sacred, you will find your life overflowingly full." OSHO

Traditional Folk Song arranged for a Portuguese Beiroa Harp Guitar. You can hear the birds and cicadas in my garden, especially my favorite noisy Carolina Wren. Read "The Secret Life of Nature" by Peter Tompkins

Poem by Alfred Kreymborg, Music and Arrangement by me Watching the grass grow, sitting on the hillside . . . daydreaming, feeling an impulse to fly . . . giving peace See you on the Island of Peace!

Poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson, Music and Arrangement by me. This is one of my favorite songs. "Listen to the voice of the valley stream . . .just as rocks and tree roots and water spray embellish nature, then we are able to accept whatever happens and live like flowing water, without clinging to anything." Shundo Aoyama, Zen Seeds

A Musical Fairy Tale composed by Susan Savia "The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly." Wallace Stevens "Fairy tales sometimes come true Use fairy dust and pixie glue Then all the love will stick to you” My Little Lovely by Ray Thomas Moody Blues ~Strange Times

An original instrumental dedicated to the Monarch Butterfly who travels from Mexico each summer to my (old)backyard in Pennsylvania... just by gliding along lightly. Butterfly emerges from golden Chrysallis glides along lightly a Monarch journey of 10,000 miles begins with a single beat "The butterfly is a reminder that life, though ephemeral, is beautiful." Deng Ming-Dao

Original Composition by Susan Savia A guided visualization of my favorite summer evening: fall in love with nature, fall in love with yourself! "…and once again we see the convergence of sensuality and spirituality. Chief Dan George prays: the fragrance of the grass speaks to me . . . and my heart soars" from The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore ". . .the Lawn is full of south and the odors tangle, and I hear today for the first time the river in the tree." Emily Dickinson

Make a Wish ... FEEL GOOD and create your reality!

Susan Savia, Composer "I knew that my body rested dreaming back in the grass, breathing deeply, under stars. I knew I could wake, any time I wished. I knew that everything in sight was my imagination." Richard Bach, Out of My Mind Suggested Reading: “Counting The Stars”, a Zen Koan, from Bring Me The Rhinoceros and other Zen Koans to Bring You Joy, John Tarentella AND read The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbott

Words by John W. Tufts, 1892 Music and Arrangement by Susan Savia "Silence is not the absence of sound. Silence is the toning down of inner and outer static, noise that occupies not only the ears but also the attention. Silence allows many sounds to reach awareness that otherwise would go unheard – the sounds of birds, water, wind, trees, frogs, insects... As well as conscience, daydreams, intuitions, inhibitions and wishes. One cultivates silence not by forcing the ears not to hear, but by turning up the volume on the music of the world and the soul." Thomas Moore, Meditations "Each night, without knowing it, you return to the unmanifested Source of all life when you enter the stage of deep, dreamless sleep . . Eckhart Tolle, "A New Earth"