When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

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

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

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

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

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.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.