Before garden, vine or grape was in the world, " writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

Sufism, " according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

My Master’s call I have decided to respondThat His work will not be left ajar as I stand afarHarvest full

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard.

Power itself is simply a word to describe attention, awareness, which embodies all things.

Goals determine what your going to be

Go slow. If you have the time for eight countries, take five. If you're rushed to take five, take three.

You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.

Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.