Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life

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.

Agnes always wanted to go out. Out was better than in. In was inside, in was interior, in was introspection.

You will finally have dignity when you realize that you are not on the path, but have become the path for others.

There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

Invert, always invert.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

I need to work on defensive play and being consistent.