Summary: <p>Listen to episode 148 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Inspirational Music & Composers: The Rhythm of Life & Love. Edited and adapted from The Rhythm of Life by Charles Brodie Patterson.</p><br> <p><strong>Inspirational Podcast Excerpt</strong>: <em>Our work tells the story of our inner life. If it is the work of a Michael Angelo, a Leonardo da Vinci, a Beethoven, or a Wagner, then such work must be a true expression of that person’s highest self. There is no way for you to attain lasting greatness save through the development of your own innate powers and possibilities. </em></p><br> <p><em>All greatness comes from within, but in order to benefit humanity or the world, it must take form in the world, and the tree must become known by its fruit. It is expected of all that each shall live their own life, and live it to the full on every plane of being, from the material plane to the spiritual plane, so that each person will, eventually, contain within themselves the full record of all life, because they have lived to the full on every plane of being. </em></p><br> <p><em>Rhythm and melody are both true expressions of our inner life, but they must become fully expressed in our outer life, so that there may be the perfect correspondence between inner and outer. The greatest composers will ever resort to the inner, but they will seldom if ever be unmindful of the outer form. </em></p><br> <p><em>The vision is first, the form is last, and the composer who tries to reverse this order will never be able to produce great or soul-satisfying music; Mozart and Beethoven both employed a great variety of rhythm because they were true interpreters of what might be called the higher or celestial music. But no composer however great has ever been able to reach the limit of musical rhythm, because the rhythm of music comes to us from infinity itself. Therefore, it must have an infinity of variety.</em></p><br> <p><strong>Related Inspirational Podcasts:</strong></p><br> <p><a title="The Kybalion" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/the-duality-rhythm-of-life/">The Duality & Rhythm of Life</a></p><br> <p><a title="Living a Beautiful Life" href="http://podcast.livinghour.org/e/thoughts-on-nature-art-beauty-lifestyle-interior-design/">Thoughts on Nature, Art & Beauty</a></p>
