History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

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

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

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

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.