A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.

There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different aspects of music: to pitch, to frequency, to timbre, to tonal intervals, to consonance, to dissonance, to rhythm, to melodic contour, to harmony.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.