The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

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

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.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.