It Is The Message, Not The Man,

It Is Not Enough That There Is A Collection Of People With The Common Aim Of Working In Unison Towards An Objective... Aspiration And Desire Only Are Not Enough.

Like The Bat, The Sufi Is Asleep To 'things Of The Day' - The Familiar Struggle For Existence Which The Ordinary Man Finds All-important - And Vigilant While Others Are Asleep. In Other Words, He Keeps Awake The Spiritual Attention Dormant In Others. That 'mankind Sleeps In A Nightmare Of Unfulfillment' Is A Commonplace Of Sufi Literature

One Can Give Or Withhold In A Manner Far More Effective, Sophisticated, Useful, Which Is Quite Invisible To People Who Think That Giving Or Withholding Is Done By External Assessment. If You Seek Some Mark Of Favour Or 'promotion', Know That You Are Not Ready For It. Progress Comes Through Capacity To Learn, And Is Irresistible. Nobody Can Stand Between You And Knowledge If You Are Fit For It.

The Sufi Way Is Through Knowledge And Practice, Not Through Intellect And Talk.

The Sufi Is One Who Does Not Care When Something Is Taken From Him, But Who Does Not Cease To Seek For What He Has Not.