It is necessary to note, " says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

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.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

There's no such thing as a passive audience.

Broke people giving financial advice is like a shop teacher with missing fingers.

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Stay with what's happening locally. It's really important.

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

I will do my best, and I promise I will give this guy a fight, and I have to win this fight.

During the season of Lent which begins today, we renew our commitment to the path of conversion, making more room for God in our lives.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.