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?

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

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.