Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

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

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

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?

You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.