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.

The phenomenal is the channel to the Truth. Al mujazu qantarat al Haqiqa.

People used to play with toys.Now the toys play with them.

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

Ali, Son of the Father of the SeekerAli said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong. This is because those who can only believe that it must be right are not believers, but people who are incapable of thinking otherwise than they already think. Such people are not men at all. Like animals they must follow certain beliefs, and during this time they cannot learn. Because they cannot be called “humanity”, they cannot arrive at the Truth.