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

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers.The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

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