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God is the ultimate musician

• You’re a song written by the hands of God. Shakira
• The god of music dwelleth out of doors. Edith M. Thomas
• We are all strings in the concert of God’s joy. Jakob Bohme
• Not without design does God write the music of our lives. John Ruskin
• God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it’s all one song – one same, wonderful, human song. Mitch Albom
• Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. Sri Aurobindo
• I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. Johann Sebastian Bach
• True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony. Michelangelo
• God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don’t try to end it. Be your note. Rumi
• God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, sovereignty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity. Paul David Tripp
• God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music. Sri Chinmoy
• God is the composer; you are the song.  Steve Maraboli

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God is music…

• To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind. William James
• Imagine God as a Song that plays throughout the whole universe. This God-Song plays in your heart, in mine, at school, in our families, our jobs, our world, everywhere. Imagine this Song’s powerful downbeat. It is the downbeat of love, joy, peace, patience, and kindness (the Fruit of the Spirit).19 It is the downbeat of honesty, wisdom, prudence, courage, and so forth (the heavenly virtues). It is the downbeat of the things we experience when we experience God. And if we imagine God as a Song, it changes the expectations we bring to the spiritual journey. When God is a Supreme Being out there in heaven, we expect him to do this or do that. We ask ourselves why he would let this or that happen, why he wouldn’t stop it. But when we think of God as a Song, it changes what we look for. “If God is a Song, our central question stops being ‘why.’ It starts being whether or not we will dance. “Whether a dear friend lives or dies, we must always decide if we will dance to the rhythm of love. When we experience tragedy or triumph, we are always deciding if we will dance the steps of kindness and goodness. In good times or bad, we are always choosing whether we will stand by the wall, or get out there on the floor and go for it. “When the question changes, it changes in good times and bad. When our hearts are breaking or are overjoyed, we are always deciding if we will dance to the Song. We are always choosing if we will listen for the rhythm of the inner Presence, if we will respond as it draws us to move. The Song of divine courage is always playing, as is the Song of patience, wisdom, peacefulness, and compassion. Doug  Hammack

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…and music is the language of God

• The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That’s what musicians are.  Ludwig van Beethoven

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The universe is God’s musical masterpiece…

• The world is an orchestra, the universe is a symphony. Matshona Dhliwayo
• I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. Rumi
• The word uni-verse actually means one song and one truth. Each of us is a note in the great symphony of Life. Aimee Davies
• The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their memory is long. Rick Yancey
• Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t name the tune. Deepak Chopra
• The heavenly bodies are nothing but a continuous song for several voices; a music which… sets landmarks in the immeasurable flow of time. Johannes Kepler
• The Kosmos hangs together, unified by a single process. It is a universe, one song. We can call that song God in the Making or Spirit in Action. Ken Wilber
• Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the being of the entire universe. It is the eternal song of the Divine. Amit Ray
• Inside every atom there is mostly empty space. What is left is more like a vibrational frequency than particles of solid matter, more like a musical note. Eckhart Tolle
• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. Albert Einstein
• But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God. Evelyn Underhill
• What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony of the whole universe which is working behind everything, and which is the source and origin of nature. It is because of this that the wise of all ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For in music the seer can see the picture of the whole universe; and the wise can interpret the secret and nature of the working of the whole universe in the realm of music. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own. Michio Kaku

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…a symphony of strings

• In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God’s creation as music. Roy H. Williams
• We all share in the same cosmic rhythm… For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp. Ernesto Cardenal
• What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings…we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes. Michio Kaku
• String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings. Kamand Kojouri
• The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space. Michio Kaku
• The beauty of string theory is the metaphor kind of really comes very close to the reality. The strings of string theory are vibrating the particles, vibrating the forces of nature into existence, those vibrations are sort of like musical notes. So string theory, if it’s correct, would be playing out the score of the universe. Brian Greene
• Physicists started to find similarities in the particles, representing them as one-dimensional loops of stringy-stuff. Different vibrations of this stringy stuff correspond to each of the fundamental particles; one note played on a fundamental string is an electron, another note is a quark, another is a photon, the particle of light.  The strings themselves are not made of anything smaller —they are the true fundamental pieces of the universe.  Geraint Lewis
• In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the “Mind of God” is cosmic music resonating in 11 dimensional hyperspace. Michio Kaku
• …the laws of physics, carefully constructed after thousands of years of experimentation, are nothing but the laws of harmony one can write down for strings and membranes. The laws of chemistry are the melodies that one can play on these strings. the universe is a symphony of strings. And the “Mind of God,” which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace. Michio Kaku

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The world too is God’s music

• The voice of humility is God’s music, and the silence of humility is God’s rhetoric. Francis Quarles
• God hears no sweeter music than the cracked chimes of the courageous human spirit ringing in imperfect acknowledgement of His perfect love. Joshua L. Liebman
• The world, as God has made it, is not a rigid exercise in logic but, like a strain of music, an infinite harmony of many diversities, and his own existence, being free and absolute, cannot be logically defined… Sri Aurobindo
• The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga. Rabindranath Tagore
• How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom–in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe–but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry–poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs–is how the world works. The world isn’t logical, it’s a song. David Byrne

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Nature is God’s music

• My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night! Avijeet Das
• Vibration is at the heart of nature. Music allows us to feel it. Glenn Kurtz
• Nature’s music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. Mary Webb
• Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony and let your senses burst with joy. Tom Brown, Jr.
• While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings, The symphony of spring. James Thomson
• Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life. Sonny Rollins
• If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. Thomas Carlyle
• Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us. Novalis
• The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. Arthur Rubinstein
• When we pay attention to nature’s music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear. Frank Bolles
• The nuances that dance between a mountain and the sky that embraces her create a symphony that the eyes perceive but only the soul can remember. Betty Jean Billups
• Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony. William Christopher Handy
• In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art. E. O. Wilson
• To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition. It’s both expressive and causal and can organize reality atmosphere like a law of physics. Warren Jeffs
• As musician Nature is maestro to ten thousand bird songs, chirping crickets, howl and roar of wild beasts, buzz of insects, trumpeting of elephants, organ music of the surf–the great symphony of forest and jungle. Wilferd A. Peterson
• I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else. Pablo Casals
• In nature everything is valuable, everything has its place. The rose, the daisy, the lark, the squirrel, each is different but beautiful. Each has its own expression. Each flower its’ own fragrance. Each bird its’ own song. So you too have your own unique melody. Diane Dreher
• It is as though nature is a wonderful symphony that science sits in awe of. It looks closely at each player, how the tubas are tuned and how the strings are strung. Creationism lets out a loud ‘shush’ at such excitement. Just enjoy the show and stop asking questions. Kyle Hill
• The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there’s a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters. Elizabeth Gilbert
• I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it’s not a symphony at all. There’s no tune, no melody, only the same notes over and over. Chirps and tweets and trills and burples. It’s as if the insect orchestra is forever tuning its instruments, forever waiting for the maestro to tap his baton and bring them to order. I, for one, hope the maestro never comes. I love the music mess of it. Jerry Spinelli
• There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordered end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations, and the song of a bird is the echo of a universal symphony. Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this all-embracing and eternal harmony. John Muir
• A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God’s first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself. John Muir

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Life itself is music…

• Human atoms are the notes, their life the symphony. Kyle Hill
• Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos. Deepak Chopra
• Not without design does God write the music of our lives. John Ruskin
• Whenever you are with me, life plays a beautiful symphony! Avijeet Das
• Life is a mellifluous symphony for those who know how to play the music! Avijeet Das
• Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. Igor Stravinsky
• Life is a rich strain of music, suggesting a realm too fair to be. George William Curtis
• Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. Oscar Wilde
• Movement, a triumphant, powerful ending to the symphony of our life here on earth. Richard N. Bolles
• Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. Henry Ward Beecher
• Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. K.S. Iyengar
• Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. John Boyle O’Reilly
• Success means to wake up, grow up, and show up, living your unique self, giving your unique gifts to the larger evolutionary symphony of life which needs your music. Marc Gafni
• Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it – it’s like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don’t see, it’s like one, big, pulsating symphony. Diane Frolov
• And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I’m stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. Harry Chapin
• To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year–in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life–there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure…get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face. Jim Rohn
• The Hour-Hand of Life — Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea – all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life. Friedrich Nietzsche

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…a kind of song

• You’re a song written by the hands of God. Shakira
• Life is not a sad song. It is a glorious symphony. Avijeet Das
• Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Ronald Reagan
• Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Mother Teresa
• You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. Sai Baba
• Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, a medley of extemporanea. Dorothy Parker
• Life is the thing–the song of life– The eager plow, the thirsty knife! Conrad Aiken
• Oh, life is sweet, and death a dream When Thy Song flows through me. Paramahansa Yogananda
• My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on. Rasheed Ogunlaru
• In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics. Robert Lanza
• In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely. Max Lucado
• Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are its songs of creation. Amit Ray
• What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? Alphonse de Lamartine
• Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic. Rajneesh
• My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked, a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself. Maya Angelou
• Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I’m always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me. Dolly Parton
• Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. Nicholas Sparks
• I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Death’s note wants to climb over— but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful. Rainer Maria Rilke
• When a man’s life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word ‘sannyas’ does not matter; what matters is the content. Rajneesh
• Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of them to make a song. It is the entire chanson you name, but when you think of it, when you smile, it is a favorite verse that delights your ears. James Patterson
• It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Each of us is a song and God is the composer

• I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.  Rumi
• I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through listen to this music. Haziz
• I am the concert from the mouth of every creature singing with the myriad chorus. Haziz
• If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony. Peter Kreeft
• The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.  Masaru Emoto
• There are moments in a woman’s life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell. Julia Quinn
• When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind.  In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life.  Toba Beta
• God is the composer; you are the song.  Steve Maraboli
• Her laughter was my favorite symphony. Avijeet Das

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Each life has a theme song

• If a life can have a ‘theme-song’ – and I believe every worthwhile one has – mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism. Ayn Rand
• If my life had to be a song I would name it, ‘Live every day like its your best day ever’, because it pretty much is. Haley Reinhart
• If my life was a song it would be ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’. Casey Abrams
• If my life was a song the title would probably be ‘Clumsy’, ’cause I’m clumsy. Pia Toscano
• If my life were a song it would be called ‘Don’t Stop Believing’. Yeah. James Durbin
• If my life were a song it would probably be titled ‘Roller Coaster’, up and down all the time. Scotty McCreery
• If my life were a song it’d be called ‘Here I Am’ because here I am – I mean, I’m Thia and I’m here to me me, I’m here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself. Thia Megia
• If my life were a song the title would be ‘The Comeback Kid.’  Stefano Langone
• If my life were a song, what would it be? ‘A Never Ending Road of Musical Good Times’. Paul McDonald

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We are all instruments in God’s orchestra

• We are all strings in the concert of God’s joy. Jakob Bohme
• No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.  E. Luccock
• The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love. Hafez
• You can’t play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it. Navjot Singh Sidhu
• The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. Saadi
• If all experienced … in the same way, [LIFE] would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note. S. Lewis
• We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole. J. Allen Boone
• If you can’t play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you’re condemned to hum the same old tune. Robert McKee
• We must realize our own talents and, having realized, accept them; and play on them like a symphony in which all other instruments are harmonized to make a better universe. Jeane Dixon
• The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy. Anais Nin
• We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully. Jack Canfield
• We are God’s gift to each other. Like a master composer, He brings all the instruments together, each with a different tone, each playing a different part, and He makes it turn out so beautifully. Jack Canfield
• Having a body that is like a musical instrument, open enough to be able to resonate, literally resonate with what is coming both from the inside and from the outside, so that one is able to surrender to powers greater than oneself. Marion Woodman
• Now if I do anything it is to tune souls instead of instruments. To harmonize people instead of notes. If there is anything in my philosophy, it is the law of harmony: that one must put oneself in harmony with oneself and with others. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed. Henry Ward Beecher
• All living things are individual instruments through which the Mind of the Universe thinks, speaks and acts. We are all interrelated in a common accord, a common purpose, and a common good. We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole. Allen Boone
• God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation–preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul–forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Herrick Johnson
• We are all musicians in a great human orchestra. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. That’s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act. Sandra Steingraber
• Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible. Lamar Boschman
• We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. That’s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act. Sandra Steingraber
• If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot. Miles Franklin
• I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played.  You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out.  You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments.  All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.  Kent Nerburn
• God does not want us, men and women, to be “passive” recipients of his eternal kingdom of love and joy. He wants us all to “actively” participate in building up his beautiful Kingdom – His beautiful tune. So in order to accomplish his plans, God created us as unique instruments. Each one of us, as individual persons, is different and capable of producing a unique and most exquisite music according to the talents and abilities given us by God. Each person, each instrument has a unique role or vocation to play in life – in God’s symphony.

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Each of us is a flute and God is the flute-player

• A flute with no holes is not a flute. Matsuo Basho
• The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute? Rumi
• The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love. Kabir
• I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through…..listen to this music. Hafiz
• We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along. Trevor Hall
• The flute-player puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer! Rumi
• Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music. Rabindranath Tagore
• We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee. Rumi
• The flute does not take credit for the music. So the mind cannot take credit for what comes through it. Anthony Lambert
• This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new. Rabindranath Tagore
• God is the breath moving through a cosmic flute and each living form is a hole in that flute, each providing its own unique note. Anthony Lambert
• All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life. Wayne Muller
• Master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Only let me make my life simple and straight, like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music. Rabindranath Tagore
• When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Kahlil Gibran
• God, when awake in a human form, expresses through the form, like music from a flute, as a flow of love, peace, creativity, joy and wonder and in so doing, greatly blesses the world. Anthony Lambert
• God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don’t try to end it. Be your note. Rumi
• The world is a cosmic flute of infinite proportion and each living form is a hole in that flute. The greater your surrender, the more the space you are opens up and the purer the note. The hole may think it’s creating the music and take credit for it. But then the hole clogs up and the note loses its purity. Anthony Lambert

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The music of the soul is the real song

• The inner music of the Soul is the real song. It’s tunes are self-existing and self-supporting and need no outer aids of hands, feet or tongue and lead to the source from whence they come, the Minstrel divine. Kirpal Singh
• Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. Prem Prakash
• God is merely tuning the soul, as an instrument, in this life. And these joys of the Christian, are only the notes and chords that are sounded out in the preparation–preludes to the perfect harmony that shall flood the soul–forerunners of the perfected and rapturous joy that shall bless the soul, in that exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Herrick Johnson
• As an unintelligent man seeks for the abode of music in the body of the lute, so does he look for a soul within the the material and psychic aggregates, of which the individual mind-body is composed. Buddha
• The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . Neal A. Maxwell
• My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.  Fernando Pessoa

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Each of us is a note…

• No one can whistle a symphony.  It takes a whole orchestra to play it.  H.E. Luccock
• God is the breath moving through a cosmic flute and each living form is a hole in that flute, each providing its own unique note.  Anthony Lambert
• Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. Prem Prakash
• We all belong together in one enormous symphony of being. Pope Benedict XVI
• We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony. Guy Laliberte
• You are not a note in a symphony; you are the entire symphony in a note. Annu Singh
• We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.  Trevor Hall
• We shall be notes in that great Symphony whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres, and all the live World’s throbbing heart shall be one with our heart, the stealthy creeping years have lost their terrors now, we shall not die, the Universe itself shall be our Immortality!  Oscar Wilde
• Infinite worlds appear and disappear in the wide expanse of my consciousness, like notes of dust dancing in a heaven of light. Sanskrit
• My life experience is a single note in an infinite symphony. That is how insignificant and important it is. Essential to the whole and perfect. A wrong note would ruin the perfection. It’s note perfect for the full effect. Anthony Lambert
• Rush like a river from the highest mountain, drink from the fountain and stop your counting. What kind of wine does he have in his tavern, oh so enchanted and sing like a mad man. Mad with the love of a wife for her husband, child or mother, sister or brother… sing for the Most High, sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song, God plays his flute and we all dance along.  Trevor Hall
• The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible. Fanny Kemble
• Villains can often be one note…  James Franco
• You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd

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…each note part of God’s greater symphony

• But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God. Evelyn Underhill
• God is able to cause all things people do to us, even the bad things, to work together for our good (Rom. 8:28). That isn’t to say that all things are good, but that God can orchestrate the evil into a symphony of glory. Sam Storms
• History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. Charles Angoff
• Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Daniel H. Pink
• The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. Victor Hugo
• The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless. E. Samaan
• What I really enjoy is not you; it’s something that’s greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn’t stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I’m alone, it continues to play. Anthony de Mello

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We should play all our notes…

• And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I’m stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra. Harry Chapin

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…together creating a sublime unison…

• Which of you would be silent – when all else sings together in unison?  Khalil Gibran
• Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin’s bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings. Rainer Maria Rilke
• You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd
• When two of persons work together, think of it as the one consciousness playing a duet. Anthony Lambert

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… allowing the notes to pass without holding onto them

• Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don’t hold on to a few bars of the music. Don’t hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass. Anthony de Mello

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Consciousness is music…

• Our divided consciousness is: … an imperfect response, a tangled and discordant rhythm preparing and preluding the full and unified play of the conscious Being in us; it is not the true and perfect symphony that may be ours if we can once enter into sympathy with the One in all variations and attune ourselves to the absolute and universal diapason.   Sri Aurobindo
• Whenever I heard the song of a bird and the answering call of its mate, I could visualize the notes in scale, all built up within my consciousness as a natural symphony. William Christopher Handy
• When two of persons work together, think of it as the one consciousness playing a duet. Anthony Lambert
• Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are its songs of creation. Amit Ray
• Infinite worlds appear and disappear in the wide expanse of my consciousness, like notes of dust dancing in a heaven of light. Sanskrit

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…and our experiences and perceptions arising in it are notes

• The plays of experience are never random, nor ultimately scary. Rather, they may be conceived as adventures. Or perhaps as interludes in a melody so vast and eternal that human ears cannot appreciate the tonal range of the symphony.  Tony Lanza
• Feeling, sensing, hearing, seeing are a symphony in the Transparent Field of Knowing. Rupert Spira
• Listen intently to a voice singing without words. It may charm you into crying, force you to dance, fill you with rage, or make you jump for joy. You can’t tell where the music ends and the emotions begin, for the whole thing is a kind of music—the voice playing on your nerves as the breath plays on a flute. All experience is just that, except that its music has many more dimensions than sound. It vibrates in the dimensions of sight, touch, taste, and smell, and in the intellectual dimension of symbols and words—all evoking and playing upon each other. Alan Watts

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Love is music

• To love there must be union with the beloved, but also separation. For love is a creative tension; it is like the string of a musical instrument—a single string yet pulled in opposite directions. If there is too little tension, or if there is too much so that the string breaks, it will give forth no sound. The perfection of love is like the perfect tuning of the string, for love attains fulfillment as there is the maximum of union between two beings who remain definitely separate. Unity in duality is the law of the finite. Alan W. Watts
• Tolerance does not…do anything, embrace anyone, champion any issue. It wipes the notes off the score of life and replaces them with one long bar of rest. It does not attack error, it does not champion truth, it does not hate evil, it does not love good.  Walter Farrell
• Love is the soul’s symphony. Matshona Dhliwayo
• Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a Great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all. Artur Rodzinski

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Silence is music

• That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.  Paul Brunton
• The highest melody dwells only in silence.  Thomas Carlyle
• Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. Aleister Crowley
• My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night! Avijeet Das

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Meditation is music

• It needs great art, learning to play with one’s own life, to play on one’s own life. Meditation is the art to create music from your heart. Meditation is simply the method to transform noise into harmony, the method to shift your consciousness from the head to the heart. The head is noisy, it is all noise – a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise, signifying nothing.  Rajneesh
• Prayer is the song of the heart. Khalil Gibran

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Peace is music

• We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God’s song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.  Paramahansa Yogananda

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Our attitude is music

• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Charles R. Swindoll

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Even suffering can make beautiful music

• I’m fine.” It’s a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting. Kiersten White
• Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. Jonathan Tropper
• Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity. Dimitris Mitropoulos
• Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. Desmond Tutu

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All in all, music is nothing short of divine

• Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. Kurt Vonnegut
• Jazz tickles your muscles, symphonies stretch your soul. Paul Whiteman
• Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else. Pablo Casals
• Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain. Mikhail Bakunin
• The highest goal of music is to connect one’s soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment. Pythagoras
• Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. E. M. Forster
• Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Daniel H. Pink
• There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. Sun Tzu
• Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it’s a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together. Marvin Gaye
• Think about a piece of music – some great symphony – we don’t expect it to get better as it develops, or that its whole purpose is to reach the final crescendo. The joy is found in listening to the music in each moment. Alan Watts
• A great painting or symphony or play, doesn’t diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe. Madeleine L’Engle

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If we want to know the purpose of the universe, we should ask ourselves what the purpose of music is

• No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them, we may forget altogether to live them.  Alan Watts
• The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. John Millington Synge
• Of what use is the universe? What is the practical application of a million galaxies? Yet just because it has no use, it has a use—which may sound like a paradox, but is not. What, for instance, is the use of playing music? If you play to make money, to outdo some other artist, to be a person of culture, or to improve your mind, you are not really playing—for your mind is not on the music. You don’t swing. When you come to think of it, playing or listening to music is a pure luxury, an addiction, a waste of valuable time and money for nothing more than making elaborate patterns of sound. Yet what would we think of a society which had no place for music, which did not allow for dancing, or for any activity not directly involved with the practical problems of survival? Obviously, such a society would be surviving to no purpose..  Alan Watts
• No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.  Alan Watts

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