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If you choose to meditate on it, please remember that the quotations published April range from the profound to the flippant. They are NOT offered as examples of eternal verities but merely as 'Food for Thought', and it is for you to judge for yourself whether and to what extent the words used accurately reflect your own beliefs and convictions. |
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...when people grow afraid, when there is a secret hidden fear at the centre of their consciousness, they have lost faith in themselves, and they begin to clutch at anything to save them. And they turn always to power, especially to organised power. They want an authority to take the burden of responsibility off their shoulders.
John Macmurray, 1891-1976
A flow out into the world followed by a return into the self gives the grip between spirit and matter — it is the crux of development.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Seneca, BCE ?1-65 CE
Written notes, musical or literary, are in fact a dangerous substitute for inner experience. In music, a note needs to have a tone for it to be released from its bondage — we have to reverse the word and the process to give it life.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Selflessness ... is very rare: it belongs to early years of innocence or more rarely to later years when values have undergone reversal.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
... music is written in clefs (French clef — key): the bass clef and the treble clef each consisting of five lines. The lines are significantly five in number because the locking of man is in the external world and in the five-fold sense-apparatus by which he is able to relate to it.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Love, and do what you like.
St Augustine of Hippo, 354-430 CE
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Salman Rushdie, b.1947
Since the bell concerns purity, the object itself has to be pure: purity of metal and perfect symmetry of shape is required. There is no place for the clashing harmonics of the gong: a true sound, as everyone knows, is 'as clear as a bell'.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the key often used is always bright.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790
... there are two lungs because feeling, which is related to breathing, is ambivalent, sensitively assessing the unconditioned activity of the will against the opposing restraint of the head.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
The sound or suon or son is ... the sound of the Logos — the Word of God — unmanifest as opposed to manifest sound. On this level sound is pure — it resembles the white of light where colour has not been differentiated — it is non-serialised and therefore simultaneously comprehended: it is cosmic intelligence.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
... every life-form, whether it has an outer song or not and whether it be a grain of sand or a complex animal, has its own inner vibrational life — its own inner sound.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
A loving heart is always young.
French Proverb
The King may be mean, degraded, miserable; the slave of ambition, fear, voluptuousness, and every low passion.
Albert Pike, 1809-1891
... if we know at what rate a particular life-form is vibrating, we have control over, and insight into, that being. It has its own key, and we have the key to it.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
He who knows the precepts by heart but fails to practise them is like one who lights a lamp and then closes his eyes.
Nagarjuna, c. 150 CE.
... a non-variable level of sound would produce in us a state of torpor.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
With the substance wooed by the will, and the ensuing form vitalised, the work is complete — a perfected man in whom every second of consciousness, like every second the bow is on the string, is a second in time and in eternity.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Only man, subtle in mind and double-talking, makes noises that do not correspond with his intent or his true feelings, and is able to imitate all other songs. By the same token he gives himself away.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Who can give law to lovers?
Boethius, c.480-c.524 CE
Fearlessly launching into the problem of Universal being, the first philosophy attempted to supply a compendious and decisive solution of every doubt.
Albert Pike, 1809-1891
The process is one of first recognising the function of the separate parts and then of integrating them into a whole. The subtle energies of thought, feeling, and will in the human instrument have to be understood separately in the same way, for a man who does not know how he responds on these levels to stimuli from the outer world is at their mercy and will never put them together in harmony under a master control.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant remains fruitless.
Hosea Ballou, 1771-1852
Truly great art has achieved a balance in which energy freely plays through form via a human instrument in which petty individual strivings have been transcended. When this happens there is no sense of misbalance, and above all no sense of effort or urgency.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
...the musical chord which groped its way out of a long history of melody and epitomised Man's exploration of ratio, is the same cord that ties up the parcel or the very vocal chords that allow speech.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Wherever we see a three-part structure in a growth cycle, we can be sure that its pattern is basically the same. It is: statement, growth through complexification, and a restatement which has acquired wisdom through the complexity.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931
The world of matter is a revelation of fear to the savage in Northern climes: he trembles as his Deity in ice and snow. The lightning, the storm, the earthquake startle the rude man, and he sees the Divine in the extraordinary.
Albert Pike, 1809-1891
... error in most playing is the result of non-observation of simple but universal laws of function.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Indolence of which a man is conscious, and indolence of which he is unconscious, are a thousand miles apart. Unconscious indolence is real indolence; conscious indolence is not complete indolence because there is still some clarity in it... Unconscious indolence is like a sickness without symptoms: it is not noticed.
Lu Yen, fl. 800 CE
Love is a greater law to itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed:
For love is sufficient unto love.