A few thoughts on how music can help save the world

1. Making music together creates community. Community creates wisdom (knowledge + compassion = wisdom).

2. When you're making music, you're not hurting anybody or anything. You're not buying things you don't need. You're not watching news programs that try to distance our relationship to the world.

3. Music gets people in touch with their emotions. We live too much in the brain and not enough in the heart. Fairness comes when we combine the two...

4. Listening regularly to music can teach us how to listen to other people, animals, plants, trees, the wind, the water. Listening creates deep compassion.
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For those musicians out there, musicians must be advocates for their community and for the world. Tell the world about what you already know. Create work that brings people together.

For those non-musicians out there, make music more a part of your life (and your significant other, children, friends, etc.)! The act of making music activates more parts of your brain than anything else (except for, maybe, meditating). Music is good for you and good for the planet!