Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

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.

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

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?

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.

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

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.