Premature Independence Is The Daughter Of Conceit.

Knowledge Is Not Gained, It Is There All The Time. It Is The "veils" Which Have To Be Dissolved In The Mind.

None Should Say: 'i Can Trust' Or 'i Cannot Trust' Until He Is A Master Of The Option, Of Trusting Or Not Trusting.

Man (and Woman) Has An Infinite Capacity For Self-development. Equally, He Has An Infinite Capacity For Self-destruction. A Human Being May Be Clinically Alive And Yet, Despite All Appearances, Spiritually Dead.

Christian Scholars Often Say That Sufi Theories Are Close To Those Of Christianity. Many Moslems Maintain That They Are Essentially Derived From Islam. The Resemblance Of Many Sufi Ideas To Those Of Several Religious And Esoteric Systems Are Sometimes Taken As Evidence Of Derivation. The Islamic Interpretation Is That Religion Is Of One Origin, Differences Being Due To Local Or Historical Causes.

Please, Not Again What You Studied, How Long You Spent At It, How Many Books You Wrote, What People Thought Of You - But: What Did You Learn?