May We Have More Alices
May we have more Alices.
More of us who do not beg the world to listen, but turn inward and listen first.
More artists who play for the spirit, not the stage.
More souls who answer grief not with silence, not with rage, but with the quiet building of something eternal.
Alice Coltrane did not ask for approval.
She was not trying to be relevant.
She was not trying to be first.
She was trying to remember.
Remember the sound before language.
The song beneath sorrow.
The home that grief still pointed toward.
In the wake of death, most of us try to rebuild the life we lost.
Alice built a new world.
She took her children, her harp, and her pain, and made music that refused to stay on the ground.
She reached for the divine with both hands.
She became Swamini Turiyasangitananda, not to impress, but to serve.
She sang in Sanskrit, not to mystify, but to cleanse.
She let her music become a bridge—for herself, for others, for whatever might be listening beyond the veil.
And we almost missed it.
She gave it away on tapes. She shared it at her ashram. She let it live in the margins.
Because the center, the market, the men, the critics, had never known what to do with women like her.
Women who carry fire and water in the same song.
Women who birth and bury and build without applause.
Women who do not burn out, but burn through.
Alice never demanded attention. She drew it like a planet draws moons.
Not with noise, but with gravity.
Not with spectacle, but with presence.
We live in a loud world. A fast one.
A world that prizes cleverness over wisdom, reach over depth, brand over soul.
But Alice reminds us: some revolutions happen in quiet.
Some revolutions wear robes instead of armor.
Some revolutions heal instead of conquer.
So may we have more Alices.
More women who teach by being.
More artists who turn absence into sound.
More mystics who remember that the sacred is not elsewhere, it is here, now, trembling beneath every note.
And may we be quiet long enough to hear them.
And brave enough to follow.
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