Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

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.

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech, ' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

Are you depressed?What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone?

People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.

The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.

Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.