No practice exists in isolation.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn.

When you or your closed ones face danger, you'd tend to get closer to God and be good.

The Persian rug served as their country with people living injade green jungles and others living in an opal cream sky.They were so light. No one would ever be able to tell thatthey had lived there.

I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.

The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.

I wish it had never happened because then I wouldn't think about it as I'm falling asleep.

I've got a Ferrari 430. It's black. I don't know what it cost but it wasn't cheap. I bought it because I was being a boy. It's fast and looks good.

I go through a lot of bad stuff, because most of the stuff that's written is pretty bad. But occasionally something comes along that's good, and I want to do it.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

Its not like I have all the answers.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.