Mastery Does Not Come From

Wherever People Gather For Selfless Ends, There Is A Vast Augmentation Of Their Individual Capacities. Something Wonderful, Something Momentous Happens. An Irresistible Force Begins To Move, Which, Though We May Not See It, Is Going To Change Our World. In This Lies The Power And The Meaning Of Spiritual Companionship.

When We Go Slower, We Are More Patient And When We Are More Patient We Have A Choice In How We Respond.

Nothing Really Worth Having Comes Quickly And Easily. If It Did, I Doubt That We Would Ever Grow.

The Sufis Advise Us To Speak Only After Our Words Have Managed To Pass Through Three Gates. At The First Gate, We Ask Ourselves, 'are These Words True?' If So, We Let Them Pass On; If Not, Back They Go. At The Second Gate, We Ask, 'are The Necessary?' At The Last Gate, We Ask, 'are They Kind?'

When We Truly Are Putting Others First, We Cannot But Feel At Peace With Ourselves.