“Most people talk too much about the past. Let the past pass into the past.”

“People talk of the Sufi way. Wrong. If there is a way, it’s not Sufism.”

“Too much thinking can make a person ill at ease.”

“In a sense, all life is a prank. We are not who we appear to be and no one else is as they appear to be. So how can we handle that little mystery? This whole business about God – what’s that all about? No one knows anything about that either. So we have people who are not as they appear to be, telling us about something that they have no idea about. We really are on our own here to try and figure it out. That’s the real adventure of it. Some people are anxious to tell you what they know and have experienced. I’d rather hear from some people who admit to what they don’t know and haven’t experienced. They’re much more interesting.”

“Time does not pass - only events pass. Where do they go? Hmmmmmmm.”

“Isn’t it a trip – some people are paid religious leaders – what’s that all about.”

“The thing about patience, I mean real patience, is that it is most needed when there is something you really want to see happen. That’s patience.”