Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from heavenly harmony. In thinking about this, he was aware that the soul itself has something in itself of this music.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.

Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in simple harmony and charity, lead the faithful to that consonance in which is no discord, and make those who still live on earth sign with heart and voice for the heavenly reward.

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.