A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.