The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.

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.

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

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.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

In the midst of your struggles, you WILL find a reason to keep going. Don’t give up!

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

I like that the art world isn't regulated.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.

If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.

Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.