Before garden, vine or grape was in the world," writes one, "our soul was drunken with immortal wine.

Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.

Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.