The Sufis Believe That They Can Experience

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.

If You Want To Make An Ordinary Man Happy, Or Think That He Is Happy, Give Him Money, Power, Flattery, Gifts, Honours. If You Want To Make A Wise Man Happy - Improve Yourself!

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

Knowledge Is Not Gained, It Is There All The Time. It Is The "veils" Which Have To Be Dissolved In The Mind.

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.