No practice exists in isolation.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

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

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.