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

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

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

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.