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If you wish that God should dwell in your heart, purify your heart from all save Him for the king will not enter a house filled with stores and furniture. He will only enter a heart which is empty of all save Himself.

— Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

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Evil is thou', and the worst evil is thou', which thou knowest it not.

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The first step in Sufism is the breaking of inkpot and the tearing-up of books and the forgetting of all kinds of intellectual knowledge.

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Take one step out of yourself that you may arrive at God.

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There is nothing inside this coat except Allah.

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Hell is where you are and Paradise where you are not.

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