Tuesday, May 22, 2012

MUSIC


Music has always been inseparable from religious expression since like religion at its best, music marks the limit of reason.
It is the most corporeal of the arts; it is produced by breath, voice, ..and reaches resonances in our bodies at levels deeper than will or consciousness.
Music goes beyond the reach of words.
We seem to experience sadness directly in a way that transcends ego, because this is not my sadness but sorrow ITSELF.In music therefore, the objective and subjective become one - Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, p. xiv