This world is a place of preparation where one is given many lessons and passes many tests. Choose less over more in it. Be satisfied with what you have, even if it is less than what others have. In fact, prefer to have less.

This world is not bad — on the contrary, it is the field of the hereafter. What you plant here, you will reap there. This world is the way to eternal bliss and so is good — worthy to be cherished and to be praised.

Ibn 'Arabi , Essential Sufism by James Fadiman, editor, Robert Frager, editor