

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.”
― The Gifts of Imperfection
― The Gifts of Imperfection
“Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.”
― This Is Your Brain on Music
― This Is Your Brain on Music

“What do we need music to do? How do we visit the land in our head and the place in our heart that music is so good at taking us to?”
― How Music Works
― How Music Works

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King

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