When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

Invest to acquire knowledge to grow your wealth of wisdom.

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

I never have a problem with being black. I have a problem with the easy association of what that means to some people.

And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality.

Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.