People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

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

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

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.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.