Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

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

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.

The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.