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

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.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

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?

No practice exists in isolation.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

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.