It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

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.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

As a child, my clothes were always tailored to be oversized, because I quickly outgrew them and then needed bigger ones. As an adult, I still don't cut my coat according to size

Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us.

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost.

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

Haha, you lose! I got your delicious Subway sandwich Jerry 'stupid' Lawler!

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.