What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?

Be yourself, that is all there is.

By choosing our path, we choose our destination.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

The world is a dangerous place, full of people who don't trust each other. This is why I am staying up in this tree.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.