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

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

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?

No practice exists in isolation.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

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

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.