"The love of this world is the chief of all errors, and the best remedy for the believer in the matter of his faith is the detachment of his heart from the love of this world, and the detachment of his heart from the love of this world, and if he accomplishes that, the renunciation of this world seems a light thing to him, and the search for the world to come becomes easy to him; but he cannot attain to detachment, except by the right means, and I do not say that the right means consists in poverty and lack of possessions and much fasting and prayer and pilgrimage and warfare for the sake of God, but rather, in reflection and the cutting short of expectation, and returning to penitence and purification, and the abandonment of self-glorification by the heart and adherence to humility, and preoccupation by the heart and adherence to humility, and preoccupation with the fear of God, and continual sorrow and much concern with Him and return to Him."
[--from my one-of-a-kind files . . . There have been and still are . . . "saints" of sorts . . . who love God and express their experience within His grace and majesty. . . .]\
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