Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white.

Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

Wherever you are, that's the entry point.

I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.