The Real Secret of Life
This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now, and instead of calling it “work,” realize that this is play
It is that power that is within you
It is that power that is within you, by means of which you move and attain liberation. It is the soul, but what is it when you have placed the soul underneath your arm?
Don’t be content
Blessing is excess, so to speak, an excess of everything. Don’t be content with being a faqih, say I want more – more than being a Sufi, more than being a mystic – more than each thing that comes before you.
A good man complains of no one
A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.
God is greater
Allahu akbar (God is great[er]) means that God is greater than that which you have imagined. It means don’t stop there, come closer so that you see greatness. Seek so that you may find.