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

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

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

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

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

Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature