“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.” ― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
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“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.” ― Jim Carrey
“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” ― Matt Groening, The Big Book of Hell
“There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.” ― Richard Attenborough Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
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To the rest of Magical Realist post#1241 After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.” ― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality. The Whole Context of the Quote was missed Write4U .
No, Magical Realist did not recite his own experience, he quoted the experience as told by Donald Miller, in context of spirituality. But this had nothing to do with music but with a form of empathy that had nothing to do with music. I took the context and explained how this conversion to Mr Miller's liking jazz happened and it was not from watching someone with his eyes closed blowing notes in a saxophone. It was a subjective take on what really happened. It was the musical construction (composition) that created the resonance. I merely showed an expert explaining how and why this affinity to jazz actually happens and why some composers create bland repetitive pop music and some create musical masterpieces, that do not only make you close your eyes, but make you cry from being transported into a different harmonic reality. The fundamental principle of story telling in poetry, prose, and music, is to create tension, release, tension, and final resolution. Not watching someone close their eyes while playing music. That's what the musician does to block out distractions. I have posted several masterpieces by Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays in the thread "What's on your iPod". Go listen and watch the live performances by the Pat Metheny Group. There is mastery of musical composition.
“The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room, not try to be or do anything whatever.” ― May Sarton
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“The ground of the spacetime domain is the frequency domain. What exists beyond spacetime isn’t anything mysterious and unknowable, it’s just frequency, i.e. the domain of pure mind, of pure light, the photonic domain: immaterial, massless, maximally length contracted (it does not experience space) and time dilated (it does not experience time), unextended and dimensionless; everything that matter is not. The photonic domain of mind is simply Leibniz’s world of pure monads, Descartes’ world of thinking substance, and Hegel’s world of the Absolute Idea. It is the inside of reality.” ― Thomas Stark, Inside Reality: The Inner View of Existence
