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.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

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

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.