Young Ideas
A Letter from June


© The School of Truth
Source p. 186, May / Jun 2010 - The Path of Truth

Hello everyone -

A Well-known author once said that music is the fourth great material need of our nature... first food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.

Probably most of us can think of at least a dozen things we would rate as being more important to man's existence than music. And besides, could music really be described as a material necessity in our lives?

But let us think it over once more. Perhaps this statement is not as unfounded as it may appear at first sight. To begin with, there is music all around us, although we do not always listen to it. Those of us who live in the country hear the excited twittering of the birds, the lowing cattle, the wind in the trees. City dwellers have other sounds to listen to. Not very beautiful music, you might say, but music nevertheless, to those who wish to listen to it.

And then since the beginning of this world, there has been rhythm, which, as you know, is one of the essential elements in music. We have this rhythm in nature, too. There is the rhythm of the seasons, as they come and go, year by year, the rhythm of the hours; the rhythm in the life of man, infancy, childhood, youth, maturity and old age.

If there is so much rhythm around us, and such rhythm in our own breathing, can it be so far wrong to say that music and rhythm are part of our daily lives?

And primitive man must have sensed this, and from the earliest times he had made music. It has stimulated him in days of joy and comforted him in his sadness. In some cases we even find that primitive man began to make music before he had a proper form of shelter or a real home.

It has been quite often said that the people of this country are not real music lovers. But perhaps this is a very superficial statement. Once we know what good music can mean to us; how it glorifies our happiness and consoles us for what we miss, we will learn to look upon it as a very real part of our daily lives.

But then we say... Good music. There is a great deal of noise, known as music, which certainly would not satisfy anybody's hunger for happiness. We trust that you will all help to make this a country of real music lovers, who are able to rise above quarrels and competitions because they have found the real harmony and rhythm of a happy life.

Yours,
June

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