1. To know with certainty that you will never receive less than what was destined for you is the essence of reliance upon Allah. [Abul Hasan bu Shaikhi]
2. Spend from what Allah has given you. Do not fear poverty. Allah will give you as He has promised. No one who has been generous has ever perished in destitution. [Ibn Arabi]
3. Prayer and fasting are the greatest things a person can do, yet to remove all the evil traits from the heart such as pride, arrogance, rancor, malice, love of this world etc, rank even higher. [Shaykh al Kharqani]
4. Seek to keep the company of those who illumine one's inward and outward states with the light of their intimacy with the Divine. [Shaykh Abul Abbas]
5. There can be no good in excess, just as there is no excess in good. [Imam Abu Hanifah]
6. Who is better among Allah's worshippers than the one who sees others as better than him? [Abu Bakr Saidlani]
7. The greatest blessings is that one is freed from the shackles of ego, for what greater veil is there between us and the Creator other than the ego. [Abu Bakr Saidlani]
8. To be angered quickly is a sign that one is in the grip of his ego. [Abu Bakr Wasti]
9. The one who longs for Allah is blessed with limbs which are free from stains of sins. [Ahmad Masruq]
10. The one who has tasted the sweetness of slave hood finds no repose in leisure pursuits. [Abdullah Manazil]
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