Potent Quotes Archive

The Approach to Spiritual Practice

We do not do our practices in order to come to realize God, but rather we accept the Unity of God first and then everything follows from that.

--Reshad Feild, The Last Barrier; A Journey Through the World of Sufi Teaching

Dreams and Visions

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

--Carl Jung

Permanent Music

The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out at a window at a landscape which didn’t stop when one turned away.

--John Cage

Music Improvisation

I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.

--Miles Davis

The Flute

The flute is totally empty

It is the breath that flows through

...sings and dances...

To be empty is not emptiness

--Rumi