None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?