Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

I have always been interested in the paranormal and afterlife, everything from ghosts to angels. I think that everyone has that curiosity of the great unknown.

I liked roaming around by myself.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.