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.

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

Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.

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

The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.