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.

Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

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

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony of the whole universe which is working behind everything, and which is the source and origin of nature. It is because of this that the wise of all ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For in music the seer can see the picture of the whole universe; and the wise can interpret the secret and nature of the working of the whole universe in the realm of music.