Reading Time: 6 minutes Soul means deep, slow and close to the heart Part of the Series Dance with the Music of Life By Maria Mar©2009 _________________ This is Part 1 of the Series Dance with the Music of Life. Click here or at the end to see the other parts. ___________________ Listen to The Blues. Sing with a cantaor in a Cante Jondo. Grab your partner and groove to a Bolero. The rhythm is slow. The words come from the depth of the artist’s soul, resonating with yours. The meaning is not in your head. It’s in your heart. That’s the first and most basic rhythm of life. You can’t rush through life, just as you can’t rush through The Blues. What’s the rush about, anyway? Are you here to live or to speed through time? Time is not an expressway where the vehicle of your ego rushes in its way to some known goal. Time is a river. Enter it gently, least you scare the rich ecosystem harbored in its every fluid fold. Why do you fall for mirages and lies, like [Read more.]