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

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

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

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.

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

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.