And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

For me to praise is interrupting praise.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.