Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

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