If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

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

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.

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

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