The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

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.

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.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

In this day and age, nobody can learn more than a sliver of all there is to know. Why force everyone to learn the same sliver?

You can only destroy something that I have but you can't destroy something that I am.

She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

I'm so glad we had that storm last week.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

I hardly ever cry because that's just not the type of person I am. But I only break down in front of Yunho at times.

All good things, all godly things, have been counterfeited by the devil.

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.