People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do no….

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk..

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend..

... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be m….

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps..

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history..

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares..

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions..

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress..

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge..

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it..

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant..

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning..

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'..

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment..

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them..

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something..

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'..

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts..

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Isla….