BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it.

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

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work

In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. Rabia

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one’s causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen.

We are not what we do, we are not what we have, we are not what others think of us. Coming home is claiming the truth. I am the beloved child of a loving creator.

Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe. Don't worry, be happy. Everything is fine.

I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.