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?

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

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

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 union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.