"Stillness
is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments
of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we
eventually honor with the name of action. Our most emotionally
active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves
most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation,
and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great;
he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and
of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we
eventually honor with the name of action. Our most emotionally
active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves
most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation,
and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great;
he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and
most like an angel."
-- Leonard Bernstein, 1976
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