The spirit is beyond pleasure and pain; it’s outside them. They are swings of opposites. The spiritual is in the here and now. It’s not pleasure nor is it pain. It is its own substance, its own kind.

Whoever has hatred toward someone is that hatred.

Wisdom is not increased by acquiring more information, but by increasing the capacity of seeing.

Whoever does decide to awaken should put their whole effort, attention, and life into it, in order to make it succeed.

Make peace with yourself, and both heaven and earth will make peace with you.

It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.

al-Futûhât al-Makkiyya