“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..”

“I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell”

“What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.”

“The greatest beauty is organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.”

“He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to.”

“Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”