Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

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.

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

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?

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.