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The Sound of Soul

    Have you ever wondered if soul has a sound? We may experience the sound of soul more than we know. Any time you move your attention to the inner dynamics of what lies behind your body and your mind, your soul will reveal itself to you.

    Soul can be experienced outside your body and your mind as well. Just the other day, I was riding in my car with my friend Suzanne. We drove by an old barn that was caving in upon itself.

    At some point, this barn stood upright. It was strong and enclosed many vehicles and animals for years. As with people, this barn aged over time. What once was a structure capable of containing many experiences of life, now, became a broken reflection of moments filled with life suspended in time.

    You and I are a structural mind/body system that holds experiences within us just like this barn. As we recall these memories, these past experiences move our awareness toward an expression of experience where stillness allows us to re-live soulful memories filled with life and vitality. These inner visions, feelings, and experiences are our soul's way of speaking to us.

    In silent reflection, our attention moves into expressions of living that are eternal. It is the part of us that is aware of our awareness. The part of us aware of our awareness and not identifying with the need to compete, become successful, or any other manifestations of the material world.

    Our soul is the identification with what lies behind all appearances of separateness. This part of us needs no eyes to see, no ears to hear, no hands to touch, no tounge to taste, and no nose to smell. Our soul is completely free of any expression of our world. Our soul is the part of us that infuses all these qualities of attention.

    Our soul is the silent spaces between every thought, word, and deed. It is a pregnant silence, all pervading, all knowing, and filled with eternity. Our soul is a connecting point from the world of flesh and the world of Spirit. The sacred human relationship between the form and formless states of our being create a spacial quality of existence within and beyond us whereby infinite possible correlations become the path of our soul.

* Try this exercise:

The next time you wake up in the morning, listen to your surroundings, just listen and do not analyze any sound. Let your attention be drawn into the sounds around you. Notice how far they are from you or how close. Do not try to define anything - just notice. You may hear birds, cars on the street, or the sounds of your home. Now, notice the part of you noticing all these sounds. What does this part of you sound like?

There is another sound within you. It is the part of you constantly speaking, analyzing, and judging. This part of you begins to plan your day, organize, and worry. It is the part of you that drives you out of silent witnessing all the events taking place around you. This part of you will get you out of bed in the morning.

At this point, learn to integrate the two consciously. They are going on anyway. This way ordinary events in your life will become sacred human awareness and a life filled with gratitude for every moment. Did you notice the difference between these two sounds? One moves your attention into the material world. The other moves you deeper into silence - the part of you aware of life's inner qualities the Sound of Soul.

Sam Oliver, author of, "God a Logs on Living and Dying"

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when i play an AIFF file in Final Cut Express, there is no sound.?

i just converted an itunes song into an AIFF file and imported it to my final cut express program, but when i play it, it has no sound. PLEASE help i must figure out what's wrong! 10 points anyone!

Had the same problem...

I used an imported song from a CD (haven't tried an itunes purchased song).

Highlight the song in itunes... control click...and select "Convert to AIFF". It makes a copy of the song.

Go back to Final Cut Express... Put the scrubber at the very beginning of the TIME LINE and press "i" on your keyboard (in) and go to the end of the video and press "o" (out).

File -> Import -> Files... Select the new copy of the song.

From the "Browser" select the song icon and place it over the "Canvas" and drop it on the purple "Superimpose".

It worked from there for me.
Hopefully it will work for you.

I am not sure if you have to change some itunes settings, if so...
Here is something I found on

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93463

1. Open iTunes.
2. From the iTunes menu, choose Preferences.
3. Click the Advanced icon at the top of the Preferences.
4. Click the Importing tab.
5. From the Import Using pop-up menu, choose AIFF Encoder instead of MP3 or AAC encoders.
6. If you are going to use this file in a DV video editing program such as Final Cut Pro or iMovie:
1. From the Setting menu, choose Custom.
2. From the Sample Rate pop-up menu, choose 48.000 kHz. This is the standard sample rate for DV.2
3. From the Sample Size pop-up menu, choose 16 bit.
4. From the Channels pop-up menu choose Stereo (or Mono if your files are monaural).
5. Click OK.
7. Click OK again.
8. If the file you are converting is already in your iTunes library, select the song, then choose Convert Selection to AIFF from the Advanced menu. If the file is not in your iTunes library, hold the Option key down while choosing Convert Selection to AIFF and then locate the file for the song you want to convert on your hard disk.

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