Better To Be Safe Than To Be

An Egocentric Pessimist Is A Person Who Thinks He Hasn't Changed, But That Other People Are Behaving Worse Than Before.

You Need Not Wonder Whether You Should Have An Unreliable Person As A Friend. An Unreliable Person Is Nobody's Friend.

From Time To Time Ponder Whether You Are Unconsciously Saying: 'truth Is What I Happen To Be Thinking At This Moment.

The Main Problem Is That Most Commentators Are Accustomed To Thinking Of Spiritual Schools As 'systems', Which Are More Or Less Alike, And Which Depend Upon Dogma And Ritual: And Especially Upon Repetition And The Application Of Continual And Standardised Pressures Upon Their Followers.the Sufi Way, Except In Degenerate Forms Which Are Not To Be Classified As Sufic, Is Entirely Different From This.

Christian Scholars Often Say That Sufi Theories Are Close To Those Of Christianity. Many Moslems Maintain That They Are Essentially Derived From Islam. The Resemblance Of Many Sufi Ideas To Those Of Several Religious And Esoteric Systems Are Sometimes Taken As Evidence Of Derivation. The Islamic Interpretation Is That Religion Is Of One Origin, Differences Being Due To Local Or Historical Causes.