The world I was born into was one filled with music.
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
Most of humanity just wants to live a peaceful life, don't we?
Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.
Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.
The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.
There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns himself with the expression of that life. What I want to do is to bring about harmony between the two extremes, for therein lies the Truth. The harmony of life is the understanding of Truth.
Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
