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.

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

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

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

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