If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.

Our heads are filled with ‘knowledge’, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Ibn El-Arabi wrote, ‘The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

The selection and following of a spiritual guide is the most important duty of a Sufi.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.

No, she was just a woman. And that meant she could feel, she could need, she could give and she could receive.

Count your blessings

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

Don't expect a stranger to wipe your nose.

When I shoot I'll take my family with me - one movie a year and then the rest of the time at home.

I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.