To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.

A master sees the bad in the good, and the good in the bad.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results. They do not know that above action and result is a law which can consume the fire of hell, which can dominate even if the whole world were being drowned in the flood of destruction; they do not know that the power of love is greater than any other.

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.

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music