A Pause for Beauty:
An artist’s journal.
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If You Listen, You Will Hear A Great Song
In music, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness. . .
I see what people call God in all these things.
- Pablo Casals
If you listen
not to the pages or preachers
but to the smallest flower
growing from a crack
in your heart,
you will hear a great song
moving across a wide ocean
whose water is the music
connecting all the islands
of the universe together,
and touching all
you will feel it
touching you
around you. . .
embracing you
with light.
It is in that light
that everything lives
and will always be alive.
- John Squadra from This Ecstasy
Journal Notes:
To listen to the smallest flower
Growing from a crack in your heart.
The music connecting all of the islands
Of the universe
In that light everything lives.
We find the peace that is searching for us
By listening.
If you listen, you will hear a great song.
There is so much power in taking the time to listen.