-Listening to another human being is the most precious gift you can offer, and the most powerful tool we have for change and growth as individuals, families and communities
-Being heard by another human being is among the most precious gifts we can receive: a deeply healing experience that can change a life
-Silence shared with another is among the deepest, most ancient medicine; and Silence is the seed of a miracle that allows us to be in the deepest support possible of another human being in pain, without acting to fade or hide or fix that pain. When in doubt about how to be a friend, we can be silent and offer the profound love song of our silence.
-Sound offers expression where words fail.
-Silence offers expression where sound fails.
-When I sing/sound/speak I am telling my story, and as a living being it is my birthright to share my story. My story is important—and necessary—to share
-Silence brings awareness to the dynamics of daily communication, and awareness leads to evolution and innovation
-Sound is the expression of love, fear, shame, grief, rage, joy, conflict and delight. Without these emotions and experiences there is no music, no art
-Sound is also—along with its friend, silence–the double-threshold to the music that is deeper and older than the music of all conflict
-Certain patterns of music (e.g. mantras, rhythms, the scale Sa-Re-Ga, musical modes) have been given to us—or are waiting to be discovered—to attune and entrain our physical systems in an ongoing process of healing and becoming
-Music transforms all emotion, all experience, into a love song that can fuel our lives
-Listening to music [any genre] can help me to hear my story as told by another and reminds me: even if I am lonely, I am not alone
-Sounding gives me the opportunity to acknowledge, integrate, and express my own shadow safely, without harming myself. or another
-Sounding authentically in a safe environment—be it a group or my bathroom shower—creates a habit of self-awareness and expression, which can become a habit of authentic self-expression in daily communication, which can become a habit of acting and living from the centre and source of my being
-Is there anything that resonates more deeply in our very cells than a deep belly laugh, the sound of a child’s giggle, the keening of honest grief, or a primal scream of rage or fear?
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