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

Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.