One
of the reasons I love the piano is the sounds that happen between the
notes I play. You could call it resonance. It is a manifestation of
the constant interplay between what we have been taught to think of
as the physical and the non-physical. My finger hits the key, the key
pushes the hammer, the hammer hits the string and the string
vibrates. That vibration sets off vibrations in the other strings.
Those vibrations set off vibrations in the first string, and on and
on.
But
it is also more than that. It is a combination of the strings and the
air and my ear and the wood of the piano and the room and the walls
and the building and the entire cosmos. And it is still more than
that, because part of what happens can not be broken down and
described like this. Part of it defies description.
That's
why I love it.
You
just have to experience it.
It
reminds me of you.
The
reason it is so important that you be your genius is because of what
your genius manifests. It is the same as what happens between the
strings. Your genius creates a resonance. In order for the cosmos to
be what it can be, we need the resonance of your genius. It has to
vibrate those strings only you can. There are no replacements. No one
can be that resonance but you.
The
cosmos is like an infinite field of piano strings, waiting to be
played. But the symphony of the cosmos will not sound until all the
notes are resonating. Your part, the part you were born to be, is
essential. No one can be it but you. It is not a part you have to
learn, it is a part you have to remember. You already knew it. You
are already perfectly capable. You only have to choose to remember.
