Yes that's how I feel

As I drove out to pick up DH this morning I happened upon a radio interview on radio national with Peter Sculthorpe I must admit I don’t know anything about him, from the interiew I know he is an Australian composer. I caught the tail end of the interview and he managed to give such a good summary about how I feel about religion, spirituality and life in general.

QUOTE FROM TRANSCRIPT

Peter Thompson: You gave up on talking about God because people misunderstood what you meant, is that right?


Peter Sculthorpe: No, that was when people would ask me what sort of a composer are you, and I'd say, Well I'm a religious composer, and people would say, Oh, really? What, Catholic, Anglican, Methodist? But by religious composer I meant that almost all my music seeks the sacred in nature, and if that's not being a religious composer, what is, if one is seeking what is sacred.


Peter Thompson: But you're very attached to that saying that Pandit Nehru, former Prime Minister of India, used in describing Bali that Bali is the morning of the earth, the morning of the world.


Peter Sculthorpe: Right, yes.


Peter Thompson: That's what you're describing, aren't you? That God in nature?
Peter Sculthorpe: Yes, God in nature, yes, which is related of course to Shintoism, Japan, which is to do with the sacredness that is in all things, in all nature.

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The idea of scared in nature is how I feel about my spirituality. I find it such a hard thing to define for myself or others and there I was sitting in the car going. “YES, that’s it.”
I’m now off to see if I can find any of his music to see how it makes me feel.
( I really should listen to RN more often, the interviews and discussions are so often thought provoking.)