The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

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?

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.