The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.

Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

Sufism is experience, and hence not to be defined – imprisoned – in perennial, static categories.

Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display.

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Rough times arouse the search for the right ways.

If I am not worth the wooing I surely am not worth the winning.

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.

These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it's true to life.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

There’s no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.