The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real

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.

In times of adversity and affliction, may you wait for the Lord to rescue and deliver you.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It is a response to Jesus Christ.

Parsons are soules waggoners.

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

I am trying to be kind instead of right.

I'm trying to find out what's actually true, which is nearly always something, if not a world of things, that you can't read in books.