sufism

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.

Words have to die if humans are to live.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.