Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

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.