The Words That Enlighten The Soul Are

Things Of Heaven Cannot Be Obtained By Perseverance; They Are The Grace Of God. To Open To This And Trust In It Is How Belief Is Crystallized Into Faith. We Cannot Pay For It In Any Form, In Any Way, By Our Goodness, By Our Piety, By Our Great Qualities, Merits, Or Virtues; Nothing. It Is A Gift, And All We Can Do Is Receive It.

In Sufi Terms The Crushing Of The Ego Is Called Nafs Kushi. And How Do We Crush It? We Crush It By Sometimes Taking Ourselves To Task. When The Self Says, 'o No, I Must Not Be Treated Like This,' Then We Say, 'what Does It Matter?' When The Self Says, 'he Ought To Have Done This, She Ought To Have Said That,' We Say, 'what Does It Matter, Either This Way Or That Way? Every Person Is What He Is; You Cannot Change Him, But You Can Change Yourself.' That Is The Crushing. ... It Is Only In This Way That We Can Crush Our Ego.

I Gave Up My Music Because I Had Received From It All I Had To Receive. To Serve God One Must Sacrifice The Dearest Thing, And I Sacrificed My Music, The Dearest Thing To Me.

There Are Two Aspects Of Individual Harmony: The Harmony Between Body And Soul, And The Harmony Between Individuals. All The Tragedy In The World, In The Individual And In The Multitude, Comes From Lack Of Harmony. And Harmony Is The Best Given By Producing Harmony In One's Own Life.

There Is No End To One's Faults. To Think Of Them Makes One Humble.