“The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.”

“A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.”

“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:"This is water.""This is water."It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.”

“The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another manwho combined so uniquely and effectively in his person both the idealist and realist factors as did Muħammad (Peace be upon him)”

“A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.”

“The real scholar must choose truth and somehow it is better if it is made so ugly that nobody could doubt its virginity.”