“A melody occurs to you; you sing it silently, inwardly ... ; you steep your being in it; it takes possession of all your strength and emotions, and during the time it lives in you, it effaces all t...”

“To hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”

“On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found a swarm of small, blue butterflies drinking the water. I only went that way on sunny days and ...”

“I was not a good scholar, and during my last year at school I made little effort. This was not due to laziness , but to a state of youthful day-dreaming and indifference that was only pierced wh...”

“I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.”

“desires are not killed by fulfilling them”

“Does God get what God wants?Thats a good question. An interesting question. And its an important question that has given us much to discuss. But theres a better question. One that we actually can a...”

“Nobody fights over the opinion of which book is better. So why do we fight over which religion is better, if they're all based on books? Let us read and learn from them all and unite in our differe...”

“How many races have been dehumanized in the name of evolution and scientific race theories? Is a bomb a religious or a scientific invention?”