The Art of Practicing

I'm reading a book called The Art of Practicing by Madeline Bruser. It's great and I'm going to copy a quote from it. The author is describing a performance by conductor Yehudi Menuhin.

"What I perceived in him onstage was an inner stillness; in front of three thousand people and in the midst of torrential musical events, he was at home. It was as though he never forgot the silence from which all the sound arose and to which it would return."

Every song begins and ends with silence, and so does every story and every life. I need to remind myself of that often.