In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.
Jay GriffithsLanguage is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.
Jay GriffithsTime is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.
Jay Griffiths