The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

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

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

ANDAKI: EFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

The kundalini is the energy that opens up the bands of perception. It is also the power that allows us to travel mentally from one dimension to another, from one experience to another.

Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

Until one has given all, one has given nothing.

If nuns begin getting more empowered, where does that leave us?

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.