There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

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

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.