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

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

No practice exists in isolation.

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.