But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

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

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

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

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.