A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

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

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

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

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?