What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

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.

To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.

With love, even the rocks will open.

It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.

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

Once you have linked yourself with love, a flood of inspiration is revealed to you, whatever the subject, whatever the problem in life may be. Whatever it be that your eye casts its glance upon, it will disclose itself. Then you are on the real road, and what a joy this is!

The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction.

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble.

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

While people judge others from their own moral standpoint, the wise person looks also at the point of view of another.

The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

What you are speaks louder than what you say.

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless.

If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.

A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others.

Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.

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