I am fully qualified to work as a doorkeeper, and for this reason:
What is inside me, I don't let out:
What is outside me, I don't let in.
If someone comes in, he goes right out again.
He has nothing to do with me at all.
I am Doorkeeper of the Heart, not a lump of wet clay.

I love God: I have no time left
In which to hate the devil.

I carry a torch in one hand
And a bucket of water in the other:
With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven
And put out the flames of Hell
So that voyagers to God can rip the veils
And see the real goal.

O God, Whenever I listen to the voice of anything

You have made —

The rustling of the trees
The trickling of water
The cries of birds
The flickering of shadow
The roar of the wind
The song of the thunder, I hear it saying:
"God is One!

Nothing can be compared with God!"

— Charles Upton, Women of Sufism by Camille Helminski