Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

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.

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

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.