Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

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

The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.