Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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!
The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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?
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
A motto of the human race: Let me do what I like, and give me approval as well.
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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