Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Life dances on the moment.

Never run from the enemy, tackle them

It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity...

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.