If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

Joyful hope!

Love for you dances within & around my core of being as regular as the beat of my heart. As certain as the draw and release of each breath.

Luck is a strong horse

When the clock strikes 2, 3, and 4, if the band slows down we'll yell for more.

I don't care about my character here on earth.I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

Achievers don't submit to instant gratification; they INVEST in the LONG-TERM payoff

The truth hurts, but those lies heal.

Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.