If, From Time To Time, You Give

Scholars Of The East And West Have Heroically Consecrated Their Whole Working Lives To Making Available, By Means Of Their Own Disciplines, Sufi Literary And Philosophical Material To The World At Large. In Many Cases They Have Faithfully Recorded The Sufis' Own Reiteration That The Way Of The Sufis Cannot Be Understood By Means Of The Intellect Or By Ordinary Book Learning.

Worry Is A Cloud Which Rains Destruction.

One Of The Tragedies Of Modern Times Is That People Have Come To Believe That Something Said By Someone In The Past, Perhaps For Illustrative Or Provocation Purposes, Actually Represents That Person's Beliefs At The Time.

If You Want To Make An Ordinary Man Happy, Or Think That He Is Happy, Give Him Money, Power, Flattery, Gifts, Honours. If You Want To Make A Wise Man Happy - Improve Yourself!

Please, Not Again What You Studied, How Long You Spent At It, How Many Books You Wrote, What People Thought Of You - But: What Did You Learn?