What one really wants is attracted by one, and one is attracted by what one wants.

If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.

If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

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

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

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