The Silent Pulse Quotes

“Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity... there is only the dance.”
― George Leonard, The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us

“Aware of it or not, each of us is involved in the grand enterprise of evolution. The new information being generated in each of our lives contributes inevitably to the ever-increasing complexity and richness of the universe. Our key choice is whether to become aware of and take responsibility for the power of our intentionality.”
― George Leonard, The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us

“What a miracle it is, this gift of time! Little marks on paper, the children of consciousness, sent down to us through the years.”
― George Leonard, The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us

“we can picture history, not in terms of chains, but rather in terms of cascading waves unfolding in time, producing new information, new options-"miracles," if you wish. This new information, whether it be a novel arrangement in the 1)NA molecule to produce a new species or a novel arrangement of language to produce a new idea, is what ultimately rules. Meat and hones, cathedrals, species, the tread of mighty armies, all are subsumed in rhythm, and a rearrangement of vocal sounds or pen scratches on paper can bring an empire down.”
― George Leonard, The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us

“At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, made up of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe. The act of getting in touch with this pulse can transform our personal experience and in some way alter the world around us.”
― George Leonard, The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us

“Each subatomic particle within you is in touch with all that is.

Every particle in the universe takes its characteristics from the pitch and pattern and overtones of its particular frequencies, its singing.

What the senses say is that we are not apart from, but a part of all that we perceive.

We are not in but of the web of relationship.

A deeper and more vivid reality lies beyond language, beyond social convention, and especially beyond ego.

To approach events wide open and without judgment is to achieve the first condition leading to perfect rhythm.

The function of small talk is entrainment.

Each of us is a holoid of the universe.

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.”
― George Leonard, The Silent Pulse: A Search for the Perfect Rhythm that Exists in Each of Us