The soul is covered by a thousand veils.

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.

In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being.