The New Monk
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The New Monk
- Monk’s intimate, exhaustive and poetic improvisations pioneered new languages of modern jazz and helped birth bebop as a seminal art form. “And then there was the silence. There is nothing more daunting and mysterious. We flood silence with chatter, we fill it with noise or notes rather than let it reveal what it knows or just let it be,” wrote mus... See more
from Some music is just imagined
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Thelonious Monk embracing silence
while we are aware of spiritual longing, we perceive ourselves to be cut off from the deeper ground of our being, where the Silence of the Word is forever emptying itself out in being-as-creation,
from Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation by Martin Laird
- I do think the monastic approach is a good one: go to a monastery and opt into an ecology of practices that is pre-designed for you. My sense though is that the world needs something new, as everyone’s transcontextual situation is unique. I sense that each person needs a bespoke ecology of practice to meet them where they are at
from The Goal Artistry Primer by Peter Limberg
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