Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.