Power

[Quint]

I do hate to break character, loves, but I'm feeling serious tonight. Actually, "awe" is more accurate a description. This is not necessarily a BDSM-related topic, but I feel the closest to you of anyone, and if I'm ever to be understood, it will be here.

What moves you to tears of intense unexplainable emotion? I just listened to my younger brother play Chopin's Prelude in D Flat Major on our piano, and I felt as if I were caught in a tide of...I don't know. Holiness. Power. Joy so profound it hurts. I'm crying at the beauty, the sheer majesty of this music. I feel so alive.

What does this to you? I would love to hear your tales of communion with greatness.

 

[James Blandings]

I understand exactly what you mean, Quint. My former submissive was a professional classical musician, and her playing would just move me in ways that I could never find words to describe.

 

[Ebonyfire]

I do hate to break character, loves, but I'm feeling serious tonight. Actually, "awe" is more accurate a description. This is not necessarily a BDSM-related topic, but I feel the closest to you of anyone, and if I'm ever to be understood, it will be here.

What moves you to tears of intense unexplainable emotion? I just listened to my younger brother play Chopin's Prelude in D Flat Major on our piano, and I felt as if I were caught in a tide of...I don't know. Holiness. Power. Joy so profound it hurts. I'm crying at the beauty, the sheer majesty of this music. I feel so alive.

What does this to you? I would love to hear your tales of communion with greatness.

Well, I think you hit on one of the greatest things in the world...Music. Music, is one of the most powerful influences in life. Maybe that is why so many people use music when they are involved with such activities as religion, sex, and stress relief to name a few.

Music is able to convey such a full range of emotion, without the use of a single word. Now that is power.


Ebony

 

[Quint]

Re: Re: Power

Music is able to convey such a full range of emotion, without the use of a single word. Now that is power.


Ebony

Heh...I have such respect for the written word. It can evoke a vast range of emotions when properly used, hence my passion in writing and fixing writing to make it as complete and evocative as possible. Yet it's never done this to me, and I don't believe it can. Perhaps I should change my calling.

 

[brazenblaze]

For me it is pure nature....to be up at sunrise and to see the sky turning or sunset on the beach. Music and art are nice...but for me the pure joy of unspoiled nature is such a rush. It makes me feel small and yet so blessed all at the same time.

 

[bluemouse]

For me it is pure nature....to be up at sunrise and to see the sky turning or sunset on the beach. Music and art are nice...but for me the pure joy of unspoiled nature is such a rush. It makes me feel small and yet so blessed all at the same time.

i must agree ~ for me, the simplest thing are the most powerful, and nature often overwhelms me...

"i think god gets pretty pissed off if you walk by the color purple in a field and dont notice it"
~Alice Walker

that...noticing the color purple, and so many other beautiful things,...that is power....

 

[cellis]

Music is one of the things that does it for me. Like the first time I heard Russell Watson. The man's voice brought tears to my eyes. A Beethoven sonata or Chopin sonata do the same. Certain kinds of jazz and jazz singers.

or...

It can be that first crisp morning, when I wake up and know that fall is really here...

the way the moon looks on the water when I am in Himself's boat...

that magic moment when just before sunset, when the sky is a blaze of colors...

or...

the first light of dawn on a winters morning when the frost is on the grass and the new sun makes the frost look like diamonds..

those a just a few of the things that do it for me...

 

[morninggirl5]

My emotions are completely connected to music. Perhaps it's because music has always been a part of my life. My family is a family of singers.

Fortunately or unfortunately, a piece of music will take on the emotions of an even i associate them with.

 

[Lancecastor]

A few of my favorite things.

1. Bodies of water do it for me. I was canoeing early yesterday morning and seeing wind changes and patterns emerging unseen but for the ripples and colors on the lake's surface was quite humbling.

2. Being musical and of a musical family, there are pieces that evoke moods and memories as well, of course.

3. The skin of a loved one during foreplay can be sacred.

So, obviously I like being naked with someone special on my beach with the stereo on in the cabin more than anything.


LC

 

[bluemouse]

music can really get to me too, especially Paul Simon,...wow, that man can touch my heart

 

[Daddyslilpet]

Music is a very powerful thing. As is nature, just being in the middle of a beautiful wooded scene with a nice lake is a great experience.

Another most powerful thing to me, is the way my Husband looks at me. I can see as well as feel the power of his love for me. It almost brings me physically to my knees, knowing that he loves me that much.

Thank you Quint for starting this thread. This is a great one.

 

[boz]

What moves you to tears of intense unexplainable emotion? I just listened to my younger brother play Chopin's Prelude in D Flat Major on our piano, and I felt as if I were caught in a tide of...I don't know. Holiness. Power. Joy so profound it hurts. I'm crying at the beauty, the sheer majesty of this music. I feel so alive.

What does this to you? I would love to hear your tales of communion with greatness.

Interesting. In spite of (or maybe because of) having been a musican, music doesn't often affect me on conscious emotional level. I have many memorable musical experiences (like the first hearing of Steve Riech's Tehillim, or a Manhattan Transfer concert), but music that I like affects me on more of a gut level. It touches something deep and sends noticable vibrations thru some deep rooted mass, but doesn't arouse closer-to-the-surface emotional responses, even when I'm playing.

The one thing that I know that does affect me strongly and quickly is when a woman, especially one that I am close to, cries. This has happened a few times with my wife, and once with my sister when she broke up with her fiancee.

 

[Xelebes]

Yeah, music. Music music music. I'm a self-professed music geek. Every emotion can be squeezed out of it, even from electronics. A powerful tool.

Barber's Adagio for choir usually does the trick, but hearing it done on synthesisers opens new windows with that piece as each timbre has it's unique connotation, the harmonics allowed on each synth line has so much importance to the sound that it can give new lights to the same music, the same notes.

 

[Netzach]

Art

-staring into the white grid of a Sol LeWitt or an Agnes Martin till I forget who I am.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Starry skies.

 

[Safphyre]

I think and feel in colors and music (synesthesia).. I understand exactly ...

 

[FungiUg]

Music is the most common trigger for me -- playing CDs loudly in my car! But architecture, art will do it. Driving out to a winery and sampling great wine -- it's the whole atmosphere thing. An amazing meal at a fantastic restaurant overlooking the sea. A dark and stormy sea in winter (the smell and sound and vision.)

Anything that overwhelmes my senses and captures my mind.

Similar is the effect of a really good night out with friends.

 

[shy slave]

Great thread

Music does it for me but differing types for differing times.
Lark Acending works always.

My sons telling me they love me, is always a joy.

But pure 'cannot be touched joy' is when someone who has no speech and communication skills i do not undestand; gives me REAL eye contact for just one second, or reaches out to touch something they want to touch, not just a random throw of their arm.

Nothing touches my soul more than this.

It moves me to tears and can me indescribably (is that how you spell it?) happy for days

 

[SubmissiveDove5]

Now this I can really relate to!

When I hear the sound of an electric guitar being played, I feel powerful. I just sit and feel the power in every note. My favorite song which leaves me in something of a trance is, well...any song by Eric Clapton.

Another thing that makes me feel power is someone's voice. I like all types of music, but there are very few that give me the feeling of power. There are a few I can name off the top of my head: Freddie Mercury (Queen), Barbra Streisand, Anne Wilson (Heart) and the girl who sings lead in Evanescence. I am a singer, so of coure, I try to make my voice very powerful when I sing, but it never sounds that powerful.

Singing is how I release all my emotions. I just don't seem to be able to do it well any other way. Sometimes a song will come on and I'll start singing. Tears come streaming down my cheeks.

 

[wickedwanda]

What brings me to tears?

The awesome power and courage of a champion racehorse. The sight of them, the thought of them. Actually get choked up sometimes talking about them.

 

[DRxBlue]

Breaking character is one thing...

*i'm breaking sod on my own grave to put in a word here...

That feeling you describe is one *i've lived my life to experience and (on a good day) even produce...

Words can't capture that element which causes gooseflesh...
When it comes from something non-sexual, it's even moreso...

It'll get you at the strangest times, times you wouldn't think of as awe inspiring, some stupid commercial and POOF! yr in tears...

*i question not
Lotta people at Lit have... moved me (hi,sis,Cellis...Gee *i love a LOTTA you)

*i can sometimes move myself, under the influence of inspiration

Keep pondering that thought, y'all
*i haven't seen a thread this good for a while
(*i haven't looked much, have *i?)

You do that to me, Q-unit
Hope *i return the favor once in a while...

Blue*

 

[shelleb4]

the experience of my youngest daughter as she approaches puberty, seeing her struggle with the female she is to become, seeing her flower and grow, watching her own distinct personality as a female coming to fruition. Knowing i must lose her as she gains independant thought feeling and spirituality. Humbling, very humbling and religious. Parenting at its most poignant.

 

[Scarlett_t2]

Well music is a givin for I could not survive without it...but I have to agree with shelleb4 on this one...watching my daughters sing, or walk up to get an award..or just watching them sleep makes my heart so full it feels it will burst. I have lain under starry skies and sat and watched the mighty ocean, I have sat on a mountian top and watched the mist in the valley and it is all wonderful...but seeing my girls grow into what they are....nothing can top that. I made that beauty.
Scarlett

 

[fallon2]

Yes, well

Yes, well, music is very important but for me it is the sensuality of a special person. It is their voice, and the words they right. It is the humor they share and it is fuldilling their needs which in turn fulfill mine.

 

[fallon2]

Yes, well

Yes, well, music is very important but for me it is the sensuality of a special person. It is their voice, and the words they right. It is the humor they share and it is fuldilling their needs which in turn fulfill mine.