Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
No practice exists in isolation.
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.
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.