I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.
For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts
A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching
History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.
Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.
The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.
Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.
Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.
The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.
At the still point, there the dance is.
All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
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