Forgetting the Self
A really musical soul is someone who has forgotten himself in music;
just as a real poet is someone who forgets himself in poetry, and
a worldly soul is someone who has lost himself in the world. And
godly is the soul who has forgotten himself in God. All the great
musicians, Beethoven, Wagner, and many others who have left to the
world a work, which will always be treasured, would not have been
able to do so if they had not forgotten themselves in their work.
They altogether lost their idea of their own being, and in that
way they deepened and became one with the thing they had come to
give to the world. The key to perfection is to be found in forgetting
the self.
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