The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

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

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

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

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.

There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind.

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school.

I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.

You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'

I think it's a myth that one cannot leave any organization once you've entered one.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.