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

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.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

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