Affirmation One:
The benevolence of the Creative Impulse is inexpressible.
We cannot know this benevolence, while accepting that Benevolence knows us better than we know ourselves.
Affirmation Two:
Love cannot bear that even one soul be denied its place in Paradise.
Affirmation Three:
In strange and uncertain times, sometimes a reasonable person might despair.
But Hope is unreasonable, and Love is greater even than this.
Affirmation Four:
Music is our friend, if only we might listen; if only we can listen.
Affirmation Five:
The poverty of our nature is no limit to our aspiration.
Affirmation Six:
Although I stumble and fall, each time I will rise again.
Affirmation Seven:
Not even death can end the process of our becoming.
Sleevenotes:
Love Cannot Bear: Soundscapes Live In The USA (2005)