If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.

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.

Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

When nothing becomes the vocalThen nothing becomes the focalAnd nothing’s becoming at all

When night comes, something speaksfrom that soft, fragrant wilderness.It says, the heart is not a door. But it opens.We feel in the dark for the hinge.

When I was six all I could think about was ding-dongs and yo-yos.

I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you.

Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.