The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

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.

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?

The MAIN thing is to MAINTAIN!

I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.

I get panic attacks in big crowds.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.