Trying To Force Something Is The Best

If You Are Uninterested In What I Say, There's An End To It. If You Like What I Say, Please Try To Understand Which Previous Influences Have Made You Like It. If You Like Some Of The Things I Say, And Dislike Others, You Could Try To Understand Why. If You Dislike All I Say, Why Not Try To Find Out What Formed Your Attitude?

Like The Bat, The Sufi Is Asleep To 'things Of The Day' - The Familiar Struggle For Existence Which The Ordinary Man Finds All-important - And Vigilant While Others Are Asleep. In Other Words, He Keeps Awake The Spiritual Attention Dormant In Others. That 'mankind Sleeps In A Nightmare Of Unfulfillment' Is A Commonplace Of Sufi Literature

When Prayer, Rituals And Ascetic Life Are Just A Means Of Self-indulgence, They Are Harmful Rather Than Beneficial. This Is Quite Obvious To People Nowadays, When It Is Widely Recognised That Fixations Are Not The Same As Valuable And Laudable Observances. One Should Not Pray If That Prayer Is Vanity; Rituals Are Wrong When They Provide Lower Satisfactions, Like Emotional Stimulus Instead Of Enlightenment; He Or She Should Not Be An Ascetic Who Is Only Enjoying It.

Effort Makes Some Great Men Famous. Even Greater Effort Enables Other Great Men To Remain Unknown.

... When We Are Talking About 'christians' And 'moslems' We Must First Make Sure That We Are Talking About People Who Have An Idea, Which Should Be More Or Less Correct, As To What The Other Is Supposed To Believe And What He Is Expected To Do As A Consequence Of That Belief.