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Quotes and Aphorisms
Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.The secret of seeking the will of God lies in cultivating the faculty of sensing harmony, for harmony is beauty and beauty is harmony. The lover of beauty in his further progress becomes the seeker of harmony, and by trying always to maintain harmony he will tune his heart to the will of God.There is nothing in the world which is not the instrument of God.Noisiness comes from restlessness, and restlessness is the destuctive rhythm.Man's atmosphere explains the condition of his soul. The further we go, so the more our disputes and arguments cease. They fade away until there is no color left in them; and when all the color has gone, the white light comes which is the light of God.Nirvana means no color. What is color? Right or wrong, sin or virtue - all this is color, and in the realm of truth they fade away, as every color fades in the brightness of light. He who has realized this has entered nirvana.Hazrat Inayat KhanMusic is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is the cup, empty; noise is the cup, broken.Attributed to Robert FrippChinese Proverbs: Contemplation without facts is dangerous; facts without contemplation are a waste of time. (Confucius)A gem cannot be polished without friction.You don't get harmony when everyone sings the same note! -- AnonymousAn art which does not reveal mysteries, which does not lead to the sphere of the Unknown, does not yield new knowledge, is a parody of art, and still more often it is not even a parody, but simply a commerce or an industry. (P.D. Ouspensky)Works of art are not created by feeling, thus feeling does not suffice for understanding them.-- Konrad FiedlerSometimes the most musical choice is silence
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