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.

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

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

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

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.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.