Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

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

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work. (Hafiz)

Sufis (the name for the realised individual, not the learner or follower) are reunited with objective Reality and Unity.

If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.

It's no good to give money to anybody who thinks money as the root of all evil.

I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.