Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

No practice exists in isolation.

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

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.