“The heartbeat, in likeness with the activity of the lungs, is a physical representation of what may be the fundamental relational paradigm. Rhythmic perfusion. A slow, wavelike rhythm carries and can employ hidden force. Everything recognizes this power as primordial. Predators, healers, and musicians, poets and orators, even infants use it — constantly — and in endless different forms and modes. The slow, authentic pulse. It is a key few locks may long withstand.”

— an a i