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

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.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

We view Sufism not as an ideology that molds people to the right way of belief or action, but as an art or science that can exert a beneficial influence on individuals and societies, in accordance with the needs of those individuals and societies ... Sufi study and development gives one capacities one did not have before.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

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.