"Mystic way is infested with one's ego, devils, men and Jinn, thus making it impossible to travel along it without and experienced, holy man as one's ascort. Also there are many slippery places where it is easy to fall. And one can be plagued with misfortune and dangers from behind."

"O Brother! There are thousands upon thousands who have been martyred and slain on the Divine way. Many other thousands are wounded and thrown prostrate. Those well known for their intellect have been perplexed in their search for Him and those famous for their religious knowledge are searching Him at the outskirts of His Glory and Tremulousness. Those, whose eyes and radiant and heart clairvant, are submerged in one drop of His ocean of His Majesty or singed like sparks from the fire of His Glory."

"Bliss and misery are two treasures of the Lord. The key to the former is submission, while the key to the latter is sin. The one who is fortunate has been blessed from his mother's womb. Such a person is given the key to bliss. The one who is unfortunate has been born accursed. Sin is the key to misery."

"O Brother! Sin for the servant is great calamity. May God protect us from such things! Sin in the beginning hardens the heart, which ultimatley leads to unbelief and wretchedness. Don't forget the wiles of Satan and the fate of Balāam Bāōur."

"Spiritual Guide should be perfect, well versed in the vicissitude of the mystic path, and firmly established in his high state. He should be a man who has experiences both the horror of God's Majesty and the delight of His beauty."

"Sin is the key to misery."

"O Dear! Live in this world brokenhearted and miserable. When Moses asked God: "O Lord where should I search You?" The answer came: "In the heart which is broken by the hand of detiny.""

"The existence of lover in the pavilion of the Beloved is a sin beyond comparison to any other."

"The best station is that of firm belief in patience through poverty until the grave."

"Unless the servant erects an iron-wall around his baser self, he cannot taste relish of his worship."

"If speaking pleases you, be silent! If silence pleases you, Speak!"

"Only the people of Divine realization are His chosen servants. These are the blest souls whom no body knows except God nor anyone respect them."

"Tree jobs are very difficult to perform: generosity in poverty; truthfulness in the state of fear; piety in solitude."

"Sorrow is a king who, when he dwells in a place, does not consent to have anyone dwelled there with him."

"I would never like to sit in the company of the world lings nor did they like to sit in my companionship."

"God has not given to mankind more gracious gift than patience and gnosis (marifāh)."

"Renunciation is a king who does not dwell anywhere but in an emptied heart."

"Fear of God is king that dwells only in the heart of a pious one."

"Let one who desires a taste of freedom and deliverance from bondage purify the secret between himself and God Most High."

"Many of us feel remorse for our sins, yet we gladly accept their causes."

"One man received a thought and accepted it without examination. Another received a thought and tested its truth. Which of them acted with greater reverence?"

"A passion which we allow to grow active within us through our own choice afterwards forces itself upon us against our will."

"The intellect cannot be still unless the body is still also: and the wall between them cannot be demolished without stillness and prayer."

"He who does not choose to suffer for the sake of truth will be chastened more painfully by suffering he has not chosen."

"Prayer is called a virtue, but in reality it is the mother of the virtues: for it gives birth to them through union with Christ."

"Do not listen to talk about other people's sins. For through such listening the form of these sins is imprinted on you."

"When you first become involved in something evil, don't say: 'It will not overpower me.' For to the extent that you are involved you have already been overpowered by it."

"Love is the last of the virtues to be born in the heart, but it is the first in value."

"However great our virtuous actions of today, they do not requite but condemn our past negligence."

"Ignorance makes us reject what is beneficial; and when it becomes brazen it strengthens the hold of evil."

"Concern yourself with your own sins and not with those of your neighbor; then the workplace of your intellect will not be robbed."

"I have seen unlearned men who were truly humble, and they became wiser than the wise."

"Do not say: 'I do not know what is right, therefore I am not to blame when I fail to do it.' For if you did all the good about which you do know, what you should do next would then become clear to you."

"Evils reinforce each other; so do virtues, thus encouraging us to still greater efforts."

"The devil belittles small sins; otherwise he cannot lead us into greater ones."

"Bardesanes’s faith was true after his master Valentinus, the founder of Gnostic schools in Alexandria and Rome, and orthodox Christians have cursed him bitterly for it. Ephraim of Edessa, a father of the Church, writing 120 years after his death, says that he died “with the Lord in his mouth and demons in his heart”. He accused Bardesanes of being a heretic and sophist, a greedy sheep-dog in league with the wolves, and a cunning dissembler practicing deceit with his songs. If this is what a Christian saint has to say about his theology, it is something of an irony that Roman Catholic scholars are so eager to accept his geography."

"They also used to say of him that on Saturday night when Sunday was about to dawn he used to put the sun behind him and stretch out his hands to heaven, praying until the sun shone on his face; and then he would sit down."

"A brother went to the cell of Abba Arsenius at Scete and, looking through the window, saw the elder as though he were all fire, for the brother was worthy to see [this.] When he knocked, the elder came out and saw the brother looking astounded. “Have you been knocking for long?” he said to him. “You didn’t see anything here?” but he said: “No.” The elder conversed with him and sent him on his way."

"Abba Arsenius for God’s sake conversed with no one, neither for spiritual profit nor for any other reason."

"“Bardesanes was also a great student of Indian religion, and wrote a book on the subject, from which the Platonist Porphyry subsequently quoted. But it is as a poet and writer on Christian theology and theosophy that Bardesanes gained so wide a reputation; he wrote many books in Syriac and also Greek ... [and] he was the first to adapt the Syriac tongue to metrical forms and set the words to music; these hymns became immensely popular, not only in the Edessene kingdom but wherever the Syriac tongue was spoken.”"

"When Abba Arsenius was still in the palace, he prayed to God saying: “Lord, guide me as to how I can be saved,” and there came to him a voice saying: “Arsenius, flee from people and you shall be saved.”"

"When the same [person] had retired into the solitary life he prayed again, offering the same prayer, and he heard a voice saying to him: “Arsenius, take flight, keep silent and maintain hesychia, for these are the roots of sinlessness.”"

"A brother asked Abba Arsenius if he could hear a saying from him. The elder said to him: “As much as you are able, strive so that what goes on inside you be godly and you conquer your external passions.”"

"Abba Mark said to Abba Arsenius: “Why do you run away from us?” The elder said to him: “God knows that I love you, but I cannot be with God and with people. The thousands and tens of thousands above have one will, but people have many wills, so I cannot forsake God and come among people.”"

"No one in the world has (ever) laughed, the least bit without weeping at the same time."

"My friends, we have seen enough of this play. We are going home, you can stay."

"جگ میں کوئی نہ ٹک ہنسا ہوگا کہ نہ ہنسنے میں رو دِیا ہوگا"

"This promised dream-world, as designed For man, by Heaven that has imbued With these ideals the human mind, Will ne’er be given up but pursued."

"It is a fallacy to hold That Life’s patrician is the prime, And outcast tribe the sterile old, Who live for death to bide their time."

"This book is from the Super-Mind A fast dictated gift sublime, The Message it contains will find Full confirmation in due time."