O my mind, be like an ocean that is calm as a mirror. Let the stormy waves subside, without the wind of thought to stir and build forces I cannot control or resist. O my mind be true as a perfectly polished mirror, purely reflecting the Light we were distilled from.
Sometimes the breath of your music draws me into stillness like a gentle river into a motionless sea. It is not the sparkling notes, the liquid melodies, the textures and timbres or the layers of swirling vibrations that carries us away. It is the silence out of which they are born and return to, sweeping [...]
“We will at last be full when we are content to be empty” …. boy does the mind hate this idea! It will resist, claim it’s a lie, blow a circuit in genuine confusion, anything to avoid looking at it. Makes sense though, it does sound pretty dismal….but it is true, and it’s not dismal [...]
“A problem can never be solved on the same level of consciousness that created it.” ~ Albert Einstein. I love this quote and it motivates me to seek things that lift me out of the level of consciousness that has created most of mine and also most of the world’s problems. Music, meditation, nature….draw [...]