But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

In order to change unwanted habits and actions, it is important to take the time to get to know yourself.

Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.

Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are.

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.