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.

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

The existence of illness in the body may no doubt be called a shadow of the true illness which is held by man in his mind.

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by sometimes taking ourselves to task. When the self says, 'O no, I must not be treated like this,' then we say, 'What does it matter?' When the self says, 'He ought to have done this, she ought to have said that,' we say, 'What does it matter, either this way or that way? Every person is what he is; you cannot change him, but you can change yourself.' That is the crushing. ... It is only in this way that we can crush our ego.

Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is 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.