The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

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.

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.

Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants

No winter lasts forever no spring skips its turn.

The ability to understand the cause of your own suffering gives you the ability to understand ours.

The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.

And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind

You can buy [John McCain's] book, but in a week and a half, he'll have another.

All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they are all great.

Reading. I know it's not a very active activity, but it is in my head.

Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.