The Music of Life

The way in which we can find our own place is to tune our instrument to the keynote of the chord to which we belong. Sound is the force which groups all things, from atoms to worlds. The chording vibration sounds in the innermost being of ourselves and can only be heard in silence. When we go into the inner chamber and shut the door to every sound that comes from the life without, then will the voice of God speak to our soul and we will know the keynote of our life.

--Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), The Music of Life