The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

No practice exists in isolation.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method.

People with the most interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.

Irony of the world is that it wants to simplify the complexity and complicate the simplicity.

You are not what you are; You are darkness Looking for light within.

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

When you are here, you are here. When you are gone, you are gone. It isn't a problem to be gone, so long as you are really here when you're here.

we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

I'm attracted to things that make me want to be a better person.