Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

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.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

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.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

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