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.

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.