About Songs of Love and Grief

As we get older, we become acutely aware of the passage of time and our mortality the mortality of the world around us. We try to keep that sense of grief separate from the love we feel for the world as well. So, there are two things, love and grief and we try to cling to love as much as we can. 

Many people have the mistaken idea that spiritual awakening somehow eliminates the grief part and only let us be filled with love. But what actually happens is the love and grief become united into a single thing, the beauty of this world and everything in it and the great sadness that all these individual things disappear in a lightening flash as one co-arising thing. 

I wanted, as a spiritual teacher and older musician,  to turn my music toward this moment, a moment only a handful of people write songs about. I hope Songs of Love and Grief is that kind of album for people, something that opens our humanity to the widest view of our fate: to be aware of  love and grief in the same moment, and because of that, see that our real choice is to aspire to be open-hearted, compassionate beings.