When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

All that produces longing in the heart deprives it of its freedom.

The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.