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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one’s neighbor.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

The universe itself was created by the sound waves which that almighty created. So music and spirituality go together. Everything is interconnected.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.