A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.

Patience is the food of understanding.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband

It is better to have hope than to be without hope.

Calling connects with passion.

[Chelsea] Manning leaked more than 700,000 classified files and videos to WikiLeaks about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

When we're in touch with our body, we're attuned to our intuition, needs, and desires and will be in the best position to make evolutionary choices for our health and wellbeing.

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

When it's over I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real.

Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first.” “Excuse me if entertaining you isn’t at the top of my agenda.

God bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was

Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.