Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.

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 short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

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.

THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

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.

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali

Sufi’s soul seeking serenity succeeds at the cost of the body which gets spifflicated by the spines of the social world.