Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Ignorance is the Mother of Opposition

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.

I am sensible that to own an inclination for a man is to put one's self wholly in his power

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.

I don't know if I'm the husky guy, but I'm the sexy guy who's a good kisser .

I Rushed to get back before it was time.

When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.