Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

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.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

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

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.