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?

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

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

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

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

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.