Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
None meets harm who knows his capacity.
You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.
Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.
Sufism is, in fact, not a mystical system, not a religion, but a body of knowledge.
Whoever gives knowledge to a fool loses itAnd who keeps it from the deserving does wrong.
Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.