Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?

No practice exists in isolation.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.

The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.