Before we make music, music makes us.
It is possible to transcend the usual limitations of the body, ego, space, and linear time.
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.
This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.
He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written.
The hand that wields the knife shall never wear the crown.
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an ‘ism becomes so involved in reaction against other ‘isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
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