listen to the orchestra of life

The book of love is written in the language of wonder – our best means of loving life more deeply. To love anything – a person, a pond, the world – is to see the wonder in it, to hear the music in it. Both love and wonder are in mysterious conversation with the deepest substrate of us, the complete message of which is unintelligible to the analytical mind, inaccessible by any explanatory model. Both require a surrender to the musicality of the experience – a trust that the music is the message.

- Maria Popova, a Bulgarian-born, American-based essayist, book author, poet, and writer of literary and arts commentary and cultural criticism that has found wide appeal both for her writing and for the visual stylistics which accompany it.