Sonic Catharsis Quotes

“In sound we are born, in sound we are healed”
― Mehtab Benton, Gong Therapy

“The gong is not a musical instrument; the gong is God. It is the most pure sound that man could create out of which comes all music, all sounds and all words.”
― Yogi Bhajan

“The Gong is a brotherhood of tones perfectly united and blended, a cosmic entity. In it the law of cohesion manifests fully. It is a mass of atoms and molecules; it is a host of tones, of cosmic lives. It is a concentric organic body. Through which the energy of sound flows uninterrupted.”
― Dane Rudhyar

“Physical sound can lead you to the inner vibration of Prana. Prana is the cause of all sound, and sound is the expression of Prana”
― Swami Satchidananda

“A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of the body. It permeates the entire being, and according to its particular influence, either slows or quickens the rhythm of the blood circulation; it either awakens or soothes the nervous system”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Gong is not a drum, or a musical instrument; Gong is God”
― Yogi Bhajan

“Gong is the sound that projects you out of your realm to the infinity”
― Yogi Bhajan

“God created the universe with this sound of the gong, fly with it, spread your wings and go with it, flow away.”
― Yogi Bhajan

“Chanting, singing and music for the basis of all religious and spiritual practices, from the conservative fundamentalists to the hedonistic pagan, every uses sound to connect to their god, in the beginning was the Word and Word Was God.”
― Mehtab Benton, Gong Yoga: Healing and Enlightenment Through Sound