The More Wakeful A Man

Please, Not Again What You Studied, How Long You Spent At It, How Many Books You Wrote, What People Thought Of You - But: What Did You Learn?

The More You Look At 'common Knowledge', The More You Realise That It Is More Likely To Be Common Than It Is To Be Knowledge. No Real Knowledge Is Common.

Sometimes A Pessimist Is Only An Optimist With Extra Information.

Scholars Of The East And West Have Heroically Consecrated Their Whole Working Lives To Making Available, By Means Of Their Own Disciplines, Sufi Literary And Philosophical Material To The World At Large. In Many Cases They Have Faithfully Recorded The Sufis' Own Reiteration That The Way Of The Sufis Cannot Be Understood By Means Of The Intellect Or By Ordinary Book Learning.

None Should Say: 'i Can Trust' Or 'i Cannot Trust' Until He Is A Master Of The Option, Of Trusting Or Not Trusting.