A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you