“Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.”

I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.

God is not a dead equation!

Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego’s evolution.

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul’s contact with the body.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don’t force them pass in the right lane and zig zag, which can create an accident, just because you think you’re correct.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Ifyou have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.

Move too quickly and time will pass you by.

Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

For everything Obama stands for and the things he’s said in the past in his books, especially with the Trayvon Martin thing

I can’t remember all the times I’ve tried to tell myself to hold on to these moments as they pass