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

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.

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.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

The very essence of love is love itself without any other expectation.

Wealth is not what you have for yourself. Wealth is what you share with others.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

Some people like to remain in 'Nirasha'. And they are not satisfied till they have spoken about it to other people.