life on planet earth on Resonance

The pyschologist Carl Rogers, a person who would know quite well the interior lives of others, has this to say of our inmost thoughts: I have most invariably found that the very feeling which has see...

It’s the rest in a piece of music that gives it resonance and shape.

I have—found that the very feeling which has seemed to me most private, most personal and hence most incomprehensible by others, has turned out to be an expression for which there is a resonance in ma...

In 1947 huge crowds came to hear a thirty-two-year-old Californian preach at mass evangelistic rallies throughout China. Although Bob Pierce had no knowledge of Chinese language or culture, his messag...

Beethoven…turned out pieces of breath-taking rightness. Rightness—that’s the word! When you get the feeling that whatever note succeeds the last is the only possible note that can rightly happen at th...

Smell — as the matter emitted from a thing, its being sensed, and the sensory communion of smelling—links self and other, in such a way that the fragrant or odorous other gives of its essence and is t...

The essence of building is letting dwell.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life

Resentment indicates we are still trying to fill the emptiness with something we think we deserve. Gratitude is the sign that God has filled the hole; indeed, that God has become the Whole in Whom we ...

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

Repetition is a form of change

Presence is experienced as a unitary whole. Think, for example, about the experience of sitting on the top of a hill, far from the polluting lights of a city, gazing at a dark, starry sky. Unless you ...

Rest provides fine-tuning for hearing God's messages amidst the static of life.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Dissonance theory predicts that we will eventually (and conveniently) forget good arguments made by opponents just as we forget silly arguments we made ourselves. . . . It’s motivated by our need to b...

Repetitio mater studiorum est. (Repetition is the mother of learning.)

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

Film theorist Bruce Kawin distinguishes between “repetitious” and repetitive.” “Repetitious,” says Kawin, occurs “when a word, percept, or experience is repeated with less impact at each recurrence; r...

Resilience is not about becoming smarter or tougher; it’s about becoming stronger and more flexible. It’s about becoming tempered. Which takes us back to the blacksmith’s shop. Tempered. Let the word ...

Joy is the very foundation of reality. Joy is where life began and where life is headed.

Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

We become what we repeatedly do.

In navigation, the term reckoning, as in dead reckoning, is the process of calculating where you are. To do that, you have to know where you’ve been and what factors influenced how you got to where yo...

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

You decide to buy a certain kind of car, and suddenly you see it everywhere. A friend recommends an obscure movie to you, and by the end of the week, three more people have mentioned it. You find out ...

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit.”.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

Solitude is an opportunity to interrupt this cycle by turning off the noise and stimulation of our lives so that we can hear our loneliness and our longing calling us deeper into the only relationship...

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.