You Are Adrift While You Still Think

If You Give What Can Be Taken, You Are Not Really Giving. Take What You Are Given, Not What You Want To Be Given. Give What Cannot Be Taken.

Scholars Of The East And West Have Heroically Consecrated Their Whole Working Lives To Making Available, By Means Of Their Own Disciplines, Sufi Literary And Philosophical Material To The World At Large. In Many Cases They Have Faithfully Recorded The Sufis' Own Reiteration That The Way Of The Sufis Cannot Be Understood By Means Of The Intellect Or By Ordinary Book Learning.

A Man Who Believes The Word Of A Donkey In Preference To My Word Does Not Deserve To Be Lent Anything.

The More Wakeful A Man Is To The Things Which Surround Him, The More Asleep Is He, And His Waking Is Worse Than His Sleep.

A Generous Person May Not Have Wisdom: But, Unlike Others, He Has The Means To Gain It.