<quote> Well, I'll tell you one thing – I recognize God before anything else. And not in some of my activities, but in all of them. I believe that the universe can be your friend or your enemy. And I believe that God is mind. A person live and move and have his being in mind. That's why Christ said, 'Let this mind be in you that was in Christ, Jesus.' Mind is all there is. Mind. Sound mind. Immortal mind. But mortal mind is of error. A person is immortal, so if a person would ever know how to keep that spirit pure on a pure level, et. cetera, that knows all there is. There's something up here in your mind that knows all there is. That's why the Bible said, 'He that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.' It means that spirit of mind. And it knows all, sees all, and is all. There's no knowledge that it does not know. You might not comprehend it because the channels of your idiosynthesy <sic> of senses might not be open. But it's still there and knows all. It's omnipresent. Any present. See. 'I give life without beginning and without ending because I am life. I am the substance of all because I am that I am.' All spirit. Substance of all. Out of one blood, all nations was built. One blood. All nations was built. </quote>

an extract from a 1991 interview between Floyd Dixon and Chip Deffaa, published in Deffaa's biographical treatise, Blue Rhythms (2000), which presented the lives of six pioneers of R&B.

I posted this tidbit because I was charmed by the combination of rustic sincerity with cosmic consciousness that Floyd exudes in his spiel.

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