Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.

You carry all the ingredients to turn your existence into joy. Mix them, Mix them!

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.

God is not justice. Justice is in his nature, but love is predominant. People attach such importance to actions and their results. They do not know that above action and result is a law which can consume the fire of hell, which can dominate even if the whole world were being drowned in the flood of destruction; they do not know that the power of love is greater than any other.

His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.