Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

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

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

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

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

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.