For me, music is the sound I've got to scratch around inside my brain. Can't let it go. Can't get it out. The words don't work to tell about how it makes me lean to one side and reach round to some other self.
Apr 23 2011: My greatest changes seem to occur when I'm wrestling with a particular paradigm that starts falling apart. In theory, my thinking should align with my actions. However, whenever my general operating principles need too many caveats to justify my actions (or vise versa)--I find myself actively trying to figure out why. I engage the people around me in the conversation. I write letters. I read. Then--and I think it's because I've made myself keenly attentive to what I'm wondering--all the information begins to converge. It is not a fast process--but eventually I formulate some new idea that helps me better proceed with this interesting task of living.
The question of community is difficult. I am now in my fifties and I find myself in situations where I am either around people who are like-minded or who are looking to me for some sort of guidance. I believe that community plays an enormous part in influencing how and what people think; but changing deeply held beliefs takes a certain kind of "inner permission."
Thank you for giving me something new to take around and wonder.
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For me, music is the sound I've got to scratch around inside my brain. Can't let it go. Can't get it out. The words don't work to tell about how it makes me lean to one side and reach round to some other self.
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The question of community is difficult. I am now in my fifties and I find myself in situations where I am either around people who are like-minded or who are looking to me for some sort of guidance. I believe that community plays an enormous part in influencing how and what people think; but changing deeply held beliefs takes a certain kind of "inner permission."
Thank you for giving me something new to take around and wonder.