The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

It's the ego, not your soul which progresses when your passion turns into an obsession.

If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power.

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

It means zero to be against greed.

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?

Unless you understand the history of a situation, you can't ever hope to solve problems.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Well, I've had my fair share in Britain of battling the tabloids.

I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.