The Whole is Much More Than the Sum of Its Parts
The Whole is Much More Than the Sum of Its Parts.
The Whole is much greater than the sum of Its parts.
The beautiful song Knoxville: Summer of 1915 illustrates this phenomenon.
The text for this piece is written by James Agee;
Samuel Barber sets it to music;
and Leontyne Price performs it.
In Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Agee describes what it feels like to be a particular child in this place at this moment of time.
The child is surrounded by his family members, feeling content and well loved, as they all lie on quilts on the grass one evening, talking of nothing in particular.
At the same time, the child is very aware of the mystery that is life , and of the mystery of the taking away of it that is death.
And finally he understands that no one can ever explain to him the mystery of who he is.
Agee’s text is magnificent in and of itself.
But Samuel Barber elaborates on the feelings evoked by Agee’s words with his own feelings of what the text means to him, through his music.
And finally, Leontyne Price brings her own interpretations of the text and of the music with her deep feelings and gorgeous voice, her phrasing , and her sublime sensibility.
The whole of this performance is transcendent; it is so much more than the sum of its parts.
And Wholeness, That which underlies the relative field of life, is so much greater than the sum of the diversity of Creation.
That Wholeness, Pure Consciousness, is Who you are.
It is your Self.
To know this, Agee need only settle down in his practice of Meditation and transcend the relative field;
experience his Self, Pure Consciousness, Divine Being;
That which is separate from the consciousness of the relative field, waking, sleeping or dreaming.
This experience of Pure Consciousness comes back with you when you return to consciousness of the relative field, bringing fullness and contentment to your life here;
bringing the feeling of Wholeness That is much greater than the sum of Its parts.
The Whole is much greater than the sum of Its parts.
The beautiful song Knoxville: Summer of 1915 illustrates this phenomenon.
The text for this piece is written by James Agee;
Samuel Barber sets it to music;
and Leontyne Price performs it.
In Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Agee describes what it feels like to be a particular child in this place at this moment of time.
The child is surrounded by his family members, feeling content and well loved, as they all lie on quilts on the grass one evening, talking of nothing in particular.
At the same time, the child is very aware of the mystery that is life , and of the mystery of the taking away of it that is death.
And finally he understands that no one can ever explain to him the mystery of who he is.
Agee’s text is magnificent in and of itself.
But Samuel Barber elaborates on the feelings evoked by Agee’s words with his own feelings of what the text means to him, through his music.
And finally, Leontyne Price brings her own interpretations of the text and of the music with her deep feelings and gorgeous voice, her phrasing , and her sublime sensibility.
The whole of this performance is transcendent; it is so much more than the sum of its parts.
And Wholeness, That which underlies the relative field of life, is so much greater than the sum of the diversity of Creation.
That Wholeness, Pure Consciousness, is Who you are.
It is your Self.
To know this, Agee need only settle down in his practice of Meditation and transcend the relative field;
experience his Self, Pure Consciousness, Divine Being;
That which is separate from the consciousness of the relative field, waking, sleeping or dreaming.
This experience of Pure Consciousness comes back with you when you return to consciousness of the relative field, bringing fullness and contentment to your life here;
bringing the feeling of Wholeness That is much greater than the sum of Its parts.