Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.

People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.

As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. This is what is called ecstasy.

I had always done these 3D things that you could walk through. They were always done off the seat of my pants without blueprints or course.

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

I am automatically suspicious of things that wave their symbolism around and do little dances and bludgeon you over the head so that you [Darn] Well Know There's A Symbol Here.