Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is “not” in their destiny.

As the Eastern saying, by the sage Hilali, has it, 'one person who understands is worth a hundred who merely obey a custom.

There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife...To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds