All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

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.

Kindness is the way you live your life every day.

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right. Next to faith this is the highest art - to be content with the calling in which God has placed you.

Wishing is a goal without energy behind it.

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.