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

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul!

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time.

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.