The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

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

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.