The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears
I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process. It's not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you're tuned out, then you're not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing.
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening
People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to listen carefully to what a person has to say. And not to force them into any direction at all but simply to model what you've experienced, model it and also be what I call a Listening Presence. If you're really listening, then some of the barriers can dissolve or change.
Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
Not everyone can march, but everyone can talk. And everyone can reach out, and everyone can vote.
We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.