The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

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.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

I'm not a huge fan of plastic surgery, for either guys or girls.

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.