Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

Many people imagine that any higher human development, if it exists at all, must follow a pattern whose form (or at least whose beginning) is instantly perceptible to them as such.In making this assumption these people expose themselves to control by any systems which can take advantage of this expectation. And systems do take advantage of this,

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

Form is useful, but it is secondary.

That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Careful preparation is necessary before people can perceive something which is there all the time.