Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

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

When I open my eyes to the outer world I feel myself as a drop in the sea. But when I close my eyes and look within, I see the whole universe as a bubble raised in the ocean of my heart.

What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal goal.

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

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