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“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Perhaps the answers to these questions require fundamental advances at the interface of physics, the arts, and neuroscience. The deep links between musical form and physical form may be unveiled by understanding how both kinds of knowledge-music and physics-arise together in human brains and nowhere else. After all, brains, regardless of how mysterious they are, are the most complex structures in the universe.”
― Stephon Alexander, The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

“إن الحكمة الإلهية حدت بنا أن نحب بعضنا بعضاً بدرجات يُمليها القضاء والقدر.
وبسبب ذلك القرار المُتخذ مسبقاً فإن كل من فى العالم مقترن بمن يألفه.”
― جلال الدين الرومي, مختارات من قصائد جلال الدين الرومي

“It’s not me that’s glorified in acts of worship. It’s the worshipers! I don’t hear the words they say. I look inside at the humility. That broken-open lowliness is the reality, not the language! Forget phraseology. I want burning, burning.”
― Rumi, Selected Poems