Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

No practice exists in isolation.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.