“All sounds, all colours, all forms, either because of their pre-ordained energies or because of long association, evoke indefinable and yet precise emotions, or, as I prefer to think, call down among us certain disembodied powers, whose footsteps over our hearts we call emotions; and when sound, and color, and form are in a musical relation, a beautiful relation to one another, they become as it were one sound, one color, one form, and evoke an emotion that is made out of their distinct evocations and yet is one emotion.”
- William Butler Yeats The Symbolism of Poetry (1900)
There is music in the seasons of Earth & Cosmos, and there is a music in us that animates and – if we heed it – keeps us awakened to possibilities. There are the rhythms of circulation and the melodies of thought, the harmonies that exist between different parts of our bodies, as well as the harmonies that characterize the interface between our inner and outer lives when we are centered and grounded in Earth & Cosmos. From a naturalistic or earthen perspective, one of the primary aims of spirituality is to ‘tune’ our lives; to bring ourselves into harmony, which involves coming into harmony with Nature and our human surroundings in such a way as to encourage and promote flourishment (eudaimonia; Gk often translated "happiness" but having this more revelatory meaning). When we are well-tuned, we ‘dance.’
