That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.

Detto del ProfetaOppressioneQuando c’è l’oppressione, anche l’uccello muore nel suo nido.

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

El Sufismo, de hecho, no es un sistema místico, ni una religión, pero un cuerpo de sabiduría.

You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.(Gulistan)

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?

Cuando se ejercita la humildad, la gente comienza a advertir que, por así decirlo, no existe en modo alguno.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

Para quien entiende, una señal es suficientePara el necio, sin embargo, mil exposiciones no son suficientes.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.