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

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

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

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

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

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?

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.