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

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

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.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.