Reason is the illusion of reality

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.

The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.