After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible
is music.
-Aldous Huxley
From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless
except the art of music which in itself is formless.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
All that takes place in nature is permeated
with a mysterious music which is the earthly projection of the music of the spheres.
-Rudolf Steiner
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
-Henry Thoreau
The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the mystical.
It is the source of all true art and science.
-Albert Einstein
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
-Francis Bacon
The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope
that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.
-Paul Brunton
We meet ourselves time and again
in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
-Carl Jung
Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic,
and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it
is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you
and I and day and night are all one.
-Hermann Hesse
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
-Thomas Carlyle
Essentially, mythologies are enormous
poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the
marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.
-Joseph Campbell
The world is as you dream it.
-Shamanic Saying
As long as the mind is seeking
to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer
concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that
emptiness cease to be.
-J. Krishnamurti
That which is above is also that which is below.
-Hermes Trismegistos
We must see that consciousness
is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single
nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and
galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.
-Alan Watts
Everybody time travels all the time.
-William Burroughs
We can never obtain peace in the
world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with
ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace.
-The Dalai Lama
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
-George Jean Nathan
He who knows that enough is enough will have enough.
-Lao-Tzu
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is
only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of
happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
-The Sanskrit
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
-Claude Debussy
Yet the timeless in you is aware
of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's
memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
-Kahlil Gibran
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose
circumference is nowhere.
-Blaise Pascal
Esoteric science premises the existence
of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless
but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things
derive their substance and draw their life.
-Dion Fortune
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he becomes.
-Bhagavad Gita
Above all senses is the mind. Above
the mind is intellect. Above the intellect is ego. Above the ego
is the unmanifested seed, the Primal Cause.
-The Upanishads
Share and save the world.
-Maitreya
Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model.
It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.
-Confucius
While All is in THE ALL, it is equally true that THE ALL is in the All.
-The Kybalion
However vague they are, dreams
have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until
they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground,
sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.
-Lin Yutang
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
True magic therefore is the high
knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged
by science up to this date because the methods of scrutiny that
have been applied so far do not suffice for their grasping, understanding
and utilization, although the laws of magic are analogous to all
official sciences of the world.
-Franz Bardon
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is sweet music here that softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass,
Or night-dew on the still waters between walls
Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;
Music that gentler on the spirit lies
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
- Lord Tennyson
The best politics is right action.
-Mahatama Gandhi
The physical senses actually can
be said to create the physical world, in that they force you to
perceive an available field of energy in physical terms, and impose
a highly specialized pattern upon this field of reality.
-Seth; Jane Roberts
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air,
or as a fish swims in the water.
-D. T. Suzuki
Since music is the only language with the
contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical
creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery
of the science of man.
-Claude Levi-Strauss
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% prespiration.
-Thomas Edison
When there is no more separation
between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the
Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see
the infinite in all things.
-Chuang Tzu
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
-Voltaire
I realized that far beyond the
possibilities of bodily thought there were in myself forces, powers
and knowledge far transcending all that the body can ever perceive
or imagine in its loftiest flights.
-The Golden Dawn
Nothing worth learning can be taught.
-Oscar Wilde
This Mind is here, now. But as soon as any thought
arises you miss it. It is like space ...unthinkable.
-Master Huang Po
As we increasingly recognize the need to recreate balance in
the environment of our planet, we are called upon to create a
commensurate balance in our inner environment.
-Findhorn Garden Book
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
-Aristotle
Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us,
that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music
conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One
must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not
tolerate Reason.
-Albert Camus
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
-Walt Whitman
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there a few.
-Shunryu Suzucki, Roshi
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from
our children.
-Haida Indian Saying
All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
-Nietszche
At this time of day, in the twilight, there is no wind. At this time there is only power.
-Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda
The ego is not master in its own house.
-Sigmund Freud
A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die,
and in order to die he must first awake.
-George Gurdjieff
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people don't know or don't accept the fact that if they had
no thoughts they would be happy.
-Anthony Damiani
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
-Blaise Pascal
There are two remedies for the miseries of life: music and cats.
-Albert Schweitzer
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear
to man as it is, infinite.
-William Blake
All day and night, music,
a quiet, bright reedsong,
if it fades, we fade.
-Rumi
The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
-Franz Kafka
We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on
and through, endlessly, like music.
-Henry Miller
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is
everything. What we think, we become.
-Buddha
Good music is very close to primative language.
-Denis Diderot
There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are
in sympathy.
-Hippocrates
All we see or seam is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allen Poe
With nature's help, humandkind can set into creation all that
is necessary and life sustaining.
-Hildegard Von Bingen
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
-Michelangelo
We shall never cease from exploration, And the end of all our
exploring will be to arrive where we started, And know the place
for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
-Plato
One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star.
-Friedrich Nietzche
Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself,
just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with
its suns and stars in himself.
- V.S. Iyer
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it,
it becomes transformed by thought.
-Pablo Picasso
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
-William Shakespeare
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
-D. H. Lawrence
Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether
body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall...everything.
-Meister Eckhart
When the way comes to an end, then change. Having changed, you pass through.
-I Ching
Those who know when to stop do not find themselves in trouble.
-Tao Te Ching
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
-Samuel Johnson
I am an old man and have known many troubles, but most of them never happened.
-Mark Twain
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