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

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.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.