I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.

Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

I am ready for the most exhilarating time of my life, discovery before me, negativity behind me, through the road to ruin, I will find within me, my most unshakeable truth.

I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

We kill time; time buries us.

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?