Why do we like music? We like music because it stirs something inside of us. This means that, in the sounding of the music, it brings by its very existence a request to the ears that hear it. What is the request that music makes? The request is for a response, and we cannot separate our response to the music from the change that takes place within us as we respond. The reason that we love mu...
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In this short talk, Guy Finley talks about how people in different regions of the world have their own individual styles of music, but that when all is said and done, every form of true music is simply a unique expression of a greater whole.
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The music of (the) mind -- its harmony, or not, is expressed by the order of its thoughts through which it is instrumented. Confusion is dissonance; clarity is flow.
The Peace of God is the Song of all His Spheres: It is the music they intone as they spin and spread themselves throughout His universe. --Guy Finley Think of the role music's played in your own life. The songs you love. How they've helped you understand and express your own feelings. How they've evoked hope... longing... happiness... even the wish to be a better person. Music moves us,...
There is a part of us that is always trying to figure out what we have to do to be with what we love, instead of seeing that what we love is always with us now. If what we love is not with us now, then it is never with us. The sensation of longing has nothing to do with the love for which we long. Part of spiritual maturity is gradually outgrowing the need we have to be identified with things...
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In this short talk, Guy Finley discusses the timeless beauty of music, and how when we find ourselves "tapping our feet to the rhythm," it is actually the expression in passing time of something timeless that already exists within us.
Much like the strings of a piano that vibrate when its keys are struck, the events that we experience in our lives produce within us a natural resonance that is a kind of music. And yet there is an unpleasant interior disharmony whenever we resist events. Resistance to events that we say we do not want prevents us from seeing reality as it is. Resistance to unwanted circumstances perpetuates t...