When you have wholly and sincerely taken the way of Love's Poverty, then all these things come to you. No one has ever taken this way and had anything at all to regret. Take any other path in life and you will find that out of a thousand enticing goals it promises, you will realize that at most only one or two; all other ways, however seductive they seem, conceal dissolution.

Anyone who gambles away his life on this path will, like the Prophet, be rewarded beyond his dreams...And so he will come to know the secret name of the Way of Poverty; that is, the Way of Infinite Treasure.

Jelaluddin Rumi, Light Upon Light: Inspirations from Rumi by Andrew Harvey