The Revival Scene

In the measure you desire him, you will find him.

Humility is, in fact, filled with power to bring forth life. The word itself comes from the Latin humus, which means fertile ground. “Humility,” writes Anthony Bloom, “is the situation of the earth.” In one sense humility is nothing more than staying close to the earth. The earth, Bloom reminds us, is always with us, always taken for granted, always walked on by everyone. It is the place where we dump our garbage. “It’s there,” continues Bloom, “silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness…transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.

☼ ॐ ⎈ Meditation for Earth Peace ☼ ॐ ⎈ www.globalmeditation.net

It’s interesting because the songs that are difficult to write always end up being less interesting than the ones that just kind of come from some crazy sparks of creativity. A lot of the songs on the album that I’m most proud of are ones that I got an idea and just kind of rolled with it and went with it, and 20 minutes later I had most of the song done. So I kind of have been following that. I’ve been following the idea that if you get a really crazy lightning bolt idea, then that’s the one you should chase and the one that you show follow. If it’s a little bit harder to get into the groove with a song, then maybe… it’s just not as good of an idea.