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Isn’t this a beautiful reminder to us parents from the great Indian, Mahatma Gandhi, “Every home is a University and the parents are the teachers. There is no school equal to a decent home and no teachers equal to honest parents” Ron Ragel
According to the thinkers of the East, there are five different intoxications: of beauty, youth and strength; then the intoxication of wealth; the third is power, command, the power of ruling; and there is the fourth intoxication, which is the intoxication of learning, of knowledge. But all these four intoxications fade away just like stars before the sun in the presence of the intoxication of music. The reason is that it touches that deepest part of man’s being. Music reaches farther than any other impression from the external world can reach. And the beauty of music is that it is both the source of creation and the means of absorbing it. In other words, by music was the world created, and by music it is withdrawn again into the source which has created it. Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) Sufi mystic and musician
When one is spiritually oriented the tendency is to value all of life in all its expressions and see them as opportunities to evolve spiritually whilst still living in the world This can be done without the neccesity for a formal religion or identification with a religious group which can be seen to be too sectarian, restrictive and decisive.Such a person generally identifies with a diverse range of spiritual practices.
“When we are using our gifts and talents we are operating on a higher more powerful energy field, than when we are doing anything else” RR.
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