The one thing to rely upon is God's favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek Him, trust Him. In Him lies your life's purpose, and in Him is hidden the rest of your soul.

The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

He who has spent has used; he who has collected has lost; but he who has given has saved his treasure forever.

There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life.

Life is a symphony, and the action of every person in this life is the playing of his particular part in the music.

In love abides all knowledge. It is mankind's love and interest in things that in time reveals their secret.

Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.