Facets of a Diamond – Blog

The music we hear is third generation Inspiration:

The composer Inspired by the Spirit World writes the composition as his Aspirational response.

Then the performer is Inspired by the composer’s Aspiration to Aspire when playing it.

And then we are Inspired by his Aspiration to

The ultimate answer to the problem of digitalized music is very simple. Just become Aware that the music was Inspired: as Inspiration from the Spirit World.

And, further, that it can then be as Inspiration for you – to then respond with Aspiration.

All aesthetic criticism ceases when you Realize that the work has been – can only be – Inspired from the Spirit World.

To believe, to truly Believe, in the Spirit is to Know that your every thought and action – and everyone’s – is Inspired: by Heaven’s Breath.

“Human nature is good just as water seeks low ground.” 

— Mencius*

And as it is the nature of smoke to rise, so it is for humans to Aspire.

* Mencius, trans. D.C Lau (London: Penguin, 2003), p. 122.

Any poem, any painting, any act of creativity, can be seen, Known, as an Instance of God, when we Realize that it has been Inspired.

Don’t concentrate on the poem, the painting, the music, itself –
but on the Inspiration that initiated it.

Your hands so soft
to hold my heart.

An author lives
in Barnes and Noble,
a writer in Amida.

You seem to have
a new life in your face.
Yes!
I have a new face
in my life.