"Dive in with your eyes closed
For the life you were born to claim
And the water will be paralyzed
By the courage you contain
And the flutter of your earnest heart
It will fill the silent seas"

~ Ryan O'Neal 

"I will always hold you close,
But I will learn to let you go.
I promise I’ll do better."

Sleeping at Last

"i want to feel tectonic shifts.
i want to be. i want to be astonished."

~ Sleeping at Last

"Chaos and commotion wherever I go,
Love I try to follow."

~ Brett Dennen

"with shortness of breath, i’ll explain the infinite— 
how rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist."

~ Sleeping at Last

"Just this physical body right here, the energy in it, is equivalent to 30 hydrogen bombs I have right now. And that’s my only guarantee. I don’t know about tomorrow, but I have right now, and I’ve got this power. What am I going to do with it?"

~ Craig Minowa

"In some of my research on cochlear implants, I learned that when they are turned on for the first time, patients often say the sound is kind of 'digital' or 'mechanical' sounding, which is entirely normal. I guess the ears and brain eventually normalize the signal and things begin to sound more natural. I thought that was entirely fascinating, so I made it a part of my song."

~ Ryan O'Neal, from "HearingI & How It Was Made"

"It felt like my senses were being used in a way that I ignore them a lot."

The human voice can sing a vowel to break your heart.

down my arms, a thousand satellites
suddenly discover signs of life

"Finding the dickhead inside [lead to] actually finding quite a liberation."

~ Damien Rice

This brilliant light is brighter than we’ve known,
Without our darkness to prove it so.
Still, we can’t help but to examine it,
To add our question marks to periods.

~ Sleeping At Last

i’ll run the risk
of being intimate with brokenness.

~ Sleeping At Last

All I have is all I need
And all I need is here now

yù yī - 玉衣 

n. the desire to see with fresh eyes, and feel things just as intensely as you did when you were younger—before expectations, before memory, before words.

"What I find very strange is this. That I think what's magnificent about Bach is that when you listen to this music, and it moves you so much, I mean, it's just a bunch of sound waves crashing into your ear, and you have to contain — you see this emotion bubbling up, you start seeing, like, tearing up, and saying, well, what's going on? These are just sounds crashing into my — what's going on in here?"

~ Bernard Chazelle