Listening to Orpheus (18)
What happened to poetry ?
A lecture on poetry with Hamza Yussuf (2/5)
If you like what we are doing
-
Just out
- Following currents
- Athena the Weaver
- Worldwide
- Every story is ours
- Of Sacrifice and Snowdrops
- A thrilling journey
- Silent Night, Holy Night
- Appeal to eternity
- W.A. Mozart: Regina Coeli in C major, K. 276
- A wondrous comet appeared…
- The Oratorio of Joy
- Christmas Concerto
- For the first Sunday in Advent…
- Be joyful…
- Energy medicine : The Whole Story
What is new
Listening to Orpheus
Make New from Old
Featured
What is hot
What is cool
What is apropos
Come on in…
What we are talking about
Archives
When & what
To the backroom
-
Join 274 other subscribers
The Living Room 
The power of words both powerfully good and destructive.
Why is it that we are so willing to just speak without thinking?
Why do most people find silence alone or with others so unsettling?
Is that one of the blessings of contemplating ‘the space between the words’?
Why does Byron Katie provide a way out of the impact of words believed and their impact on our emotions?
Sometimes I think human beings, of which I am one, are very much like ‘sheep without a shepherd’ and blindly follow anything to find something! Only to find the effect doesn’t last so on to the next thing.
Taking time to slow down and appreciate the greatness of the beauty of words, songs and poetry and allowing some silence to digest them is like a healing balm.