The best thing for the servant who desires to be near his Lord is to possess nothing in this world or the next other than Him. I have not served God from fear of hell, for I should be like a wretched hireling if I did it from fear; nor from love of Paradise, for I should be a bad servant if I served for the sake of what was given—but I have served Him only for the love of Him and out of desire for Him.
-Rabi’a al-‘Adawiyya