The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Continuously, in commemoration of the FriendWe drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

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