The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in th….

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find so….

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed..

Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigila….

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are there….

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct..

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown..

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpion….

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depe….

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it..

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis..

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or prov….

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean..

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'..

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise..

When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts..

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?.

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholdi….

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress..

Do not try to be humble: learn humility..