A toddler listens to an adult
when they're interested in their words;
knowing they will teach them more & more
of the lessons that still remain unheard, unheard.

An adult listens to more
than just the roar of the crowd;
knowing any ideas they choose to accept
need to translate into their actions which speak out loud.

It takes more than just a walk in nature to make a naturalist;
It takes so much more than just "art" to make an artist;
It takes more than simple lyrics to make a lyricist;
soulfulness & expression must co-exist.


"Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship."

"Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the chief call for a God on modern men's part is for a being who will inwardly recognize them and judge them sympathetically. Matter disappoints this craving of our ego, so God remains for most men the truer hypothesis, and indeed remains so for definite pragmatic reasons."

-William James