“The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.”

O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

Fear that man who fears not God.

Abu Sa’id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. ‘He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.’

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears.

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, “I want to make a creature of you. Condense.” And the Wind condensed.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

The absolutely Non-Manifested cannot be designated by any expression which could limit It, Separate It, or include It. In spite of this, every allusion alludes only to Him, every designation designates Him, and He is at the same time the Non-Manifested and the Manifested.

It is with a word as with an arrow–once let it loose and it does not return.

I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined … .

I didn’t have any witticisms to land on suburbia. I was really just interested in how beautiful it was. I felt it was like a dreamscape and once I understood that was how I needed to approach it the dream started to expand in unusual ways.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus “following the market”. We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

The biggest factor between winning and losing is the mental approach.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you’re doing it, because it’s the same technical approach.

The time is now for us to make our brain the number one priority so that education and awareness can take effect, and begin to change the way we approach the health of our athletes from youth to professionals.

I must admit, however, that there was a time when I thought I was approaching a species of twelve-tone music. Yet even in works of that period the absolute tonal foundation is unmistakable.