A strong realization hits me.

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis.

Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Look at me, making one of your dreams come true. You and your Norm truck driving around Normville.""You're practically a god.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

My skills are still my skills.

Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.

An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.