Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.