Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

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

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

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

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.