He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.

Sufism, " according to the Sufi, "is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

A double sided sword is crafted under heat and pressure and comes out ever more beautiful because of it.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean. A real sweet pair of neurotics.

Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you.

The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.