Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.

Humility has to precede instruction.