If You Want To Strengthen An Enemy

It Is Not Important To Have Said A Thing First, Or Best - Or Even Most Interestingly. What Is Important Is To Say It On The Right Occasion.

The Union Of The Mind And Intuition Which Brings About Illumination, And The Development Which The Sufis Seek, Is Based Upon Love.

Enemies Are Often Former Or Potential Friends Who Have Been Denied - Or Think That They Have Been Denied - Something.

One Can Give Or Withhold In A Manner Far More Effective, Sophisticated, Useful, Which Is Quite Invisible To People Who Think That Giving Or Withholding Is Done By External Assessment. If You Seek Some Mark Of Favour Or 'promotion', Know That You Are Not Ready For It. Progress Comes Through Capacity To Learn, And Is Irresistible. Nobody Can Stand Between You And Knowledge If You Are Fit For It.

Anyone Can See That An Ass Laden With Books Remains A Donkey. A Human Being Laden With The Undigested Results Of A Tussle With Thoughts And Books, However, Still Passes For Wise.