Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

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.

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.

For those who talks about the perfection of god in making human.....Its his success after billion years of experiments out of millions of other useless creatures

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just really depended on how hard I wanted to work.

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

There are those who labor in the darkness, that the rest of us might live in the light.

The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.