Wisdom

"It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true."

"Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt."

"Like calls to like, truth to truth and deceit to deceit."

"A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything"

"Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it."

"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."

"Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’."

"The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work."

"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."

"The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss."

"As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions."

"And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’."

"Ibn El-Arabi wrote, ‘The Teacher is he who hears you, then unveils you to yourself"

"Q: How can I help myself?A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service’, from Saadi."

"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

"Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi."

"He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam."

"You can’t help who you are, but you can change who you want to be."

"Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher."

"You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: for you must be either mad or brave before it is ended."