It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.

If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.

Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

WisdomSufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

Form delicious bonds. Be the fruit that others seek when their hearts and souls are hungry.

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.

By being outside of nature, God is also outside of space and time.

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.