Turn a deaf ear to the things that disturb your peace of mind.
-Jesus Christ
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.
-Thomas Merton
Chant the name of God with heartfelt devotion. Everything else is just a pompous worldly show.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advancement.
-Orville Wright
The essence of the offering is that it be analogous to the sin, and that a man offer to God his desires and passions, for this is more acceptable than all.
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
God’s purpose in creating the universe was to feel happiness when He saw the purpose of goodness fulfilled in the Heavenly Kingdom, which the whole of Creation, including man, could have established.