It is All Music
Even what we call matter or substance, and all that does not seem
to speak or sound, is in reality all vibration. And the beauty of
the whole of creation is this, that creation was worked in two ways.
In one way it has expressed and in the other way it has made itself
a responsive mold. For instance, there is substance, matter to touch,
and there is a sense to feel, to touch. There is a sound, and at
the same time there are ears which can hear sound. There is light,
there is form, there are colours; and at the same time there are
eyes to see them. And what man calls beauty is the harmony of all
one experiences. What after all is music? What we call music is
the harmony of the audible notes; but in reality there is music
in colour, there is music in lines, there is music in the forest
where there is a variety of trees and plants; and there is harmony
in how they correspond with each other
The more widely one observes nature, the more it appeals to one’s
soul. Why? Because there is a music there; and the wider one’s
outlook on life becomes, the deeper one’s understanding of
life, the more music one can listen to, the music which answers
the whole universe. But the one whose heart is open need not go
as far as the forest; in the midst of the crowd he can find music.
At this time human ideas are so changed, owing to materialism, that
there is hardly any distinction of personality. But if one studies
human nature, one sees that even a piano of a thousand octaves could
not reproduce the variety of human nature. How people agree with
one another, how they disagree; some become friends after a contact
of a moment, some in many years cannot become friends. If one could
only see to what pitch the different souls are tuned, in what octaves
different people speak, what standards different people have! Sometimes
there are two people who disagree, and there comes a third person
and all unite together. Is that not the nature of music? The more
one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature,
how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction
and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.
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