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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

The teaching of Jesus Christ has as its central theme unfoldment towards a realization of immortality.

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

A person does not hear sound only through the ears; he hears sound through every pore of his body. It permeates the entire being ...

Spiritual progress is the changing of the point of view.

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

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

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

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

You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!

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

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.

Be sparing of your words if you wish them to be powerful.

All ignorance is the lack of love.

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

How can you be that which you possess? You cannot be the horse and rider at the same time. Herein lies the secret of mortality and immortality.

I can see as clear as a daylight that the hour is coming when women will lead humanity to a higher evolution.

The soul is covered by a thousand veils.

All that produces longing in the heart
deprives the heart of freedom.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

With love, even the rocks will open.

What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.

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

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

He who once burns his mouth on the hot soup, blows even the buttermilk.

The soul apart from the body and mind is a sound, a note, a tone, which is called in Sanskrit Svara.

The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

It is a presumption on the part of man when he demands in words an explanation of God.

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

The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.

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

Resignation is a quality of the saintly souls.

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

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.

According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.

As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.

Language is made up of names of comparable objects, and that which cannot be compared has no name.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

He who with sincerity seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose.

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

Peace is perfected activity.

Reason is the illusion of reality

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

There is a light within every soul; it only needs the clouds that overshadow it to be broken for it to beam forth.

By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

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

Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.

When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

The voice therefore naturally expresses the attitude of mind whether true or false, sincere or insincere.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.

There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.

One is never so strong as when one is broken.

There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul.

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

Living in the world without insight into the hidden laws of nature is like not knowing the language of the country in which one was born.

If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

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

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.

Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.

He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

It is living in sensation that makes man material, and after some time he becomes ignorant of the spirit.

Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest.

Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.

When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being.

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

Instead of lamenting your fate, create your world.

Evolved. This evolution only means that the soul has adopted a more finished instrument in order to experience life more fully.

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

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

Impression is a great phenomenon in itself: as a man thinketh so is he.

Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

Belief and disbelief have divided humankind into so many sects, blinding its eyes to the vision of the Oneness of all Life.

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

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

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.

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

As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

for only the eye of sincerity can see. The eye of curiosity has the cataract of doubt, and is blind already.

Sarcasm is an abuse of the intellect.

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

One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind.