Mysticism and God in Sufism

The qualities that endear a man to God are river like generosity, sun-like affection, and earth like hospitality.

The true mystic is not a devotee lost in ecstatic communion with the One, or a reclusive saint who avoids others. The true mystic lives alongside other people - coming and going, eating and sleeping, buying and selling, marrying and chatting - but not for a moment does he forget God."

"Wherever you find yourself, whether in worship or in ordinary life, contemplate God - in what you eat, what you drink, whom you marry, always aware that he is both the Contemplated and the Contemplator.