By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come...he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.

Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.

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