Everybody wants to take something to eternity from this world, but there is nothing in this that can find a passage there except egolessness. - Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani

O seeker, never think ya hath gained illumination, until for seventy years successively you experience that whilst standing in prayers in Khurasan, you are offering obeisances and bowing in Makkah, and all the treasures of heaven and earth lie bare before your eyes and in spite of all that remain humble and ever in fear lest the Lord many not accept your worship.

The greatest activity is the remembrance and recollection of the Lord and after that come, in order of preference, purity of life, charity and austerity.

Whosoever by God's grace sees Him sees not creatures. He who attains to the vision of the Lord is lost to himself.