The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

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 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.

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

If humanity is annihilated because we were too busy squabbling with one another to manage a proper stand, we probably deserve the annihilation.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

Everyone of us has a heaven inside.

Oh, there was harm indeed for a young lady flattered by the brief attentions of a handsome man.

Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.