Music is the celestial sound, and it is sound that controls the whole universe, not atomic vibrations. Sound energy, sound power, is much, much greater than any other power in the world.

Don't give up your power to change things. Negativity and unhappiness are caused by you. You can change your attitude.

..just do, leave it there, if it comes let it come, but don't look for it.

Begin with little things daily and one day you will be doing things that months back you would have thought impossible.

Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.

We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)