It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

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

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.