“The Song of a thing is like its signature, its identity. This aliveness has a feeling to it. And everyone’s ‘feeling’ is different from everyone else’s. It is there at the heart of a thing, with all its life’s events and properties coming from it. Like a well spring. Whatever we experience, there underneath it, almost as if it was hiding, but so alive, sings our Song. You see, even through great tragic pain one can come to find their Song, their center, their passion. If they can grab it and hold on, they can ride the waves of pain, like an anchor in a storm, a light to steer by. They can come to truly know themselves.”

– Chea Hetaka, “Sacred Link” by Kay Cordell Whitaker