You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.

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.

Walk a mile in your customers’ stilettos or loafers. Try to understand where they are in the moment.

If you love people, you have no desire to judge them.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.

We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.

Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.

all large cities are alike at night.

The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.