Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.

Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.

... Whenever Eleanor felt nervous or scared, she told herself to be happy instead. (It didn’t really make her feel better, but it kept her from feeling worse …)

I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

I finally learned to accept that I can't make radio play blues any more than I could get Reagan out of the White House.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

I always wanted to be a sprinter.

and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.