Love is the Divine Mother's arms; when those arms are spread, every Soul falls Into them.

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

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.

Mastery lies not merely in stilling the mind, but in directing it towards whatever point we desire, in allowing it to be active as far as we wish, in using it to fulfill our purpose, in causing it to be still when we want to still it. He who has come to this has created his heaven within himself; he has no need to wait for a heaven in the hereafter, for he has produced it within his own mind now.

The man who tries to prove his belief superior to the faith of another, does not know the meaning of religion.

Love is the merchandise which all the world demands; if you store it in your heart, every soul will become your customer.

By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.

There should be balance in all our actions; to be either extreme or lukewarm is equally bad.

The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

To be resigned means to find satisfaction in self-denial (Self-denial is the denial of one's lower self).

Reason is the illusion of reality.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.

I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul!

The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.

I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.

Music, the word we use in our everyday language, is nothing less than the picture of our Beloved. It is because music is the picture of our Beloved that we love music.

One is never so strong as when one is broken.

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

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.