teaching
Thirty Spokes
The Invitation
It
doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
Ravi Shankar's Take on Music
" In every little mind, different, different thoughts come;
and different, different moods are there. But, when we
sing, what happens? All the minds have the same
rythym, the same song, same waves, same frequency,
and there is so much more joy. "
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The Power of Music
“Music has to be recognized as an…agent of social development in the highest sense, because it transmits the highest values - solidarity, harmony, mutual compassion. And it has the ability to unite an entire community and to express sublime feelings."
Creation Story
My friend ManWoman sent this to me:
Men, another Sioux story, weren't they wise?
The Creator gathered all of Creation and said,
Sounds literally shape our realities
"Sounds literally shape our realities. Everything that occured in our lives is recorded in our bodies. These events are recorded in our tissue as memories that actually exude a sound, and respond and change shape when engaged by our voice. Sound touches us where hands and words cannot reach."
-- Vickie Dodd
This body is a letter to the king
'Back now to the servant who is writing
letters to the king to
protest how his food allotment
has been reduced. He thinks
he is writing in a calm and reasonable style, but the king
can hear the conceit and bitterness
inside the words. This body, your life, is a letter
to the king of the universe.
Go to a private place and open it and read to see if
the words are right. If they
aren't, start another! And don't think it's easy to open
the body and read the secret
