Enlightenment must come little by little otherwise it would overwhelm.

Give what cannot be taken.

Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving.

Ideologies exist only where there is no absolute knowledge. If you know something, you do not have to believe or disbelieve it.

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

Saying of the prophet reflection the faithful are mirrors, one to the other.

Saying of the prophet tasks whoever makes all his tasks one task, God will help him in his other concerns.

The way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Although human mobility has increased, human assumptions have not kept pace. Human knowledge may have increased but human assumptions have remained fairly constant.