There Is A Persian Proverb:

A King Who Feared Wasps Once Decreed That They Were Abolished. As It Happened, They Did Him No Harm. But He Was Eventually Stung To Death By Scorpions.

Exercise Power By Means Of Kindness, And You May Be Causing More Damage Than You Could By Cruelty. Neither Approach Is Correct.

When Prayer, Rituals And Ascetic Life Are Just A Means Of Self-indulgence, They Are Harmful Rather Than Beneficial. This Is Quite Obvious To People Nowadays, When It Is Widely Recognised That Fixations Are Not The Same As Valuable And Laudable Observances. One Should Not Pray If That Prayer Is Vanity; Rituals Are Wrong When They Provide Lower Satisfactions, Like Emotional Stimulus Instead Of Enlightenment; He Or She Should Not Be An Ascetic Who Is Only Enjoying It.

The Sufi Is One Who Does Not Care When Something Is Taken From Him, But Who Does Not Cease To Seek For What He Has Not.

The More Wakeful A Man Is To The Things Which Surround Him, The More Asleep Is He, And His Waking Is Worse Than His Sleep.