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.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

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.

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

When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.

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