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No practice exists in isolation.
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
A real secret is something which only one person knows.
People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.
Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.