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?

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

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.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.