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.

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

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.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.