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1908–1995 United States

eden ahbez (15 April 1908 – 4 March 1995) was an American poet, musician, and songwriter; born Alexander Aberle, adopted and raised as George McGrew, he insisted on spelling his adult name in lower-case letters, and was called "ahbe" by his family and friends.

United States
Poets

Also known as: Ahbez, Eden, Eden Ahbez, Ahbe, Alexander Aberle, George McGrew

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The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Nature Boy (1948)

While we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me:
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."

Nature Boy (1948)

What I mean by the Principle of Oneness is this:
That we must learn to realize
that there's nothing separate or apart.
That everything is part of everything else.

Tape recording to Joe Romersa (1992)

Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.

Joe Romersa (1992)

We're not earthly beings any more… we're cosmic beings.

Tape recording to Joe Romersa (1992)

And now you know my background.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth,
of thunder and lightning,
of rain and wind,
of the galaxies,
of the suns and the stars
and the void through which they travel.

There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy...

Nature Boy (1948)

The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home — yea, I'm always at Om.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples,
and older than the Scriptures,
and whether we realize it or not,
they hold more authority.

Tape recording to Joe Romersa (1992)

The seasons come and the seasons go, the summer fruit and the winter snow, but here we are, and here we stay — until the time to go away.
Ah, they say, there's a land that is great, and is grand; there's no fear, and no pain — we will all live again — and everyone will find the ones they love.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eden ahbez (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.