When people came to Christ accusing a person of doing wrong, the Master could not think of anything else but forgiveness. For he did not see in the wrongdoer what the others saw. To distinguish between right and wrong is not the work of an ordinary mind, and the curious thing is that the more ignorant a person is, the more ready he is to do so.

The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

One is never so strong as when one is broken.

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

The religion of the Sufi is the religion of the heart. The principal moral of the Sufi is to consider the heart of others, so that in the pleasure and displeasure of his fellow-man he sees the pleasure and displeasure of God.