“I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.” IfsThinkingLifePlayMusicListeningSurvivalDesertIslandsComposerBeing AlonePianist Author:Glenn Gould
“People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand.” PeopleWantPresidentWaterLeadershipStepsListeningDrinkDiscoveryDrinkingAbsenceGenuineDesertSandStep UpThirstyMicrophonesCrawlingAmerican PresidentMiragesDesert Sand Author:Michael J. Fox
“The Lord's angel, Gebrail, dictated the Koran to Mohammed the Lord's Prophet. What a joke if all that holy book were only twenty-three years of listening to the desert. A desert which has no voice.” IfsYearsBookThreeVoiceLordListeningHolyJokesAngelTwentiesDesertProphetThree YearsHoly Books Book:V. Source: V.
“It is like being in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself.” FirstsMaySoundSilenceTakenListeningAbsenceDesertWhere You AreStillness Book:Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest Source: Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest