Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

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

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

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.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

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?

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!