BoX

pain is the necessary condition of our body, and suffering is the necessary condition of our spiritual life

only in the storm can you see the art of the real sailor; only on the battlefield can you see the bravery of a soldier.

The human ear can hear frequencies from around 20Hz to 20,000Hz--the lowest sub-bass to ultra-high whistles. Through evolution or divine inspiration, humans most like to hear frequencies in ranges akin to the human voice, which is surely no surprise. Timbres matter too. In orchestration, it is said that we can listen to strings indefinitely without tiring, but from the other groups, such as brass, it is nice to have breaks.

In music production, we have a tool called an "equalizer". With the equalizer, we are able to cut or boost whatever frequencies we please. We can boost thumping bass, or cut squealing highs. In mixing, you will often have sounds that sound appealing when heard individually, but do not mesh well as a whole. What sounded good alone may be drowned out when heard with other sounds. Perhaps one sound just doesn't complement another. Very often, lots of individual tracks played together just sounds like an disagreeable mess.

The solution is the equalizer. By carving each sound a certain spot, a certain place, a certain purpose, you arrive at a coherent and pleasing whole. This is done through cutting frequencies, and not boosting them. What may have sounded poignant alone must make way for others in the whole.

So it is with life. Just as there are only a range of frequencies sounds must fit in, so too are our lives limited. What may be wonderful taken alone may not fit in the larger picture of our destiny.

not being heard is no reason for silence

would you bet on yourself?

“My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge,” she says. “Unease masks a desire to jump.”

you have to learn the rules of the game and then you have to play better than anyone else

am I or the others crazy?

einstein

Always you have to be so good as to be the best.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Stephen King

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.

all things, even the most complicated things, become simple and clear if you separate them from other people and place them before God for judgment.

I understand, I always have

Flying scared me, so I did some parachuting. It was weird seeing my feet look bigger than a house, but it cured the fear.

daphne guinness

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

they're not old friends, but I think someday they will be

unless you go down about once in three or four game tries, you are underbidding

odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fiero sentio et excrucior.

I hate and I love. Why do I do, perhaps you ask. I do not know, but I feel it happening and I am tormented.

quality, temperature, and approach

on the stage, in your element, where you belong

faust gave his soul in exchange for the devil's powers

if the more you gave up the more you got, how much would you give?

#2014

love more and give more

before a doctor learns how to treat a problem he first learns how to diagnose it

your stable physical weight is largely a function of how much you put into your body and your activity. you may presently be underweight or overweight, but eventually you will converge at some point.

so too is our spiritual life governed by what we put in and what we do. you may temporarily be subject to circumstances but eventually you will be where you belong.

if you want to eat a big steak you best break it into small pieces