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

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

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

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

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

Soar on to the King, the crown jewel,And then you'll truly seeThat nothing is as beautifulAs His grand Majesty.

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

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

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: 'There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.

Standing in Front of the Mirror of EternityDressed By True ExistenceLooking to Your Own RealityIn the Ocean of Oneness

A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.