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.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

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.

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

A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.

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