“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.”

“Pronto me di cuenta de que estas enseanzas podan ser un consuelo slo para los que las aceptaran literalmente y que creyeran ser la verdad. Si fueran, como para m, en parte bella literatura, parte s...”

“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.”

“When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.”

“There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.”

“There is no wisdom for a man without harmony, and without harmony there is no contemplation. Without contemplation there cannot be peace, and without peace can there be joy?”

“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”

“Sometimes I try to erase myself. And then, if I've done a good job, I'm erased. I'm nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl. And I see. I hear. But not wit...”