Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

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

Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.

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.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

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.

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

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

Saying of the Prophet.Lies, promises, trustHe is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise or fails in his trust.

Saying of the ProphetAccusationsAnyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.