Artists of the Heart

A track, part of an online album by Chinmaya Dunster, ‘Sat-Sang: Chinmaya Dunster’s Songs’

I remember this song coming to me almost complete on a train from Bombay to Pune in 1985. This version was recorded in Hamburg later that year, with Gros Ngolle on bass and a wonderful Iraqi ney and accordion player I bumped into on the street. I added Swedish singer Ellika Hansen on vocals in Maui the following year.

For those who dare to love
Those who dare to dream
Those who dare to feel the pain

For those who dare to risk
Those who dare to lose
They only stand to gain

For those who dare to face
Their fragility
They are beyond all praise and blame

They walk with their feet on air
They make brightness out of dark
They look for beauty everywhere
They make a world apart
They are the artists of the heart

For those who dare to laugh
Those who dare to cry
The deeper their tears
The brighter their smiles

For those who dare to trust
Those who dare to share
With empty hands they receive

For those who dare to die
Flow the way life goes
They live this mystery

Those who dare to dream
Face reality
Those who dare to love
Let go of the past

They are the artists of the heart

For those who dare to laugh
Those who dare to cry
The deeper their tears
The brighter their smiles

For those who dare to trust
Those who dare to share
With empty hands they receive

For those who dare to die
Flow the way life goes
They live this mystery

They walk with their feet on air
They make brightness out of dark
They look for beauty everywhere
They make a world apart
They are the artists of the heart

This track is part of the online album, ‘Sat-Sang: Chinmaya Dunster’s Songs’ –
soundcloud.com/sat-sang

Chinmaya Dunster was born in 1954 in England. He started playing the classical guitar at 15 and took up the Hindustani classical instrument sarod in 1984. He took sannyas in 1982. He has 13 CDs released (3 of them under ‘Bhakti’ and ‘Akasha’) on which he has been joined by musicians from the world of Osho. Chinmaya is also involved with environmental / social justice issues in his adopted homeland, India, and creates awareness-raising films on these issues. He lives in New Zealand with Naveena and their six-year daughter Koyal. www.chinmaya-dunster.com