Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken..

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete..

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before..

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting..

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose..

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain..

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information..

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it..

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them..

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense….

If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one ….

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm..

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything..

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown ….

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah..

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinic….

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse..

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is co….

Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, ….

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy ….