But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.

… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

He is the completed Man who, from his completeness, performs, with his Mastership, the work of a slave.

To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

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

Saying of the ProphetTasksWhoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: ‘Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue’.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

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