Then You Are Already In Heaven

There is no end for worldly desires. The remedy finds its roots within its trouble. How much have you gained strength and been virtuous? Can you present those you need, to others with generosity? Can you fulfil services and aids for the consent of God, not for any other interest? Do you think of wisdoms on coming into the world and leaving it and do you, accordingly, make an effort for a living to render this thinking meaningful?
Are you thankful to God for the body, mind, abilities and blessings that you have? Do you thank much? Can you endure troubles you meet? Can you forgive someone for the sake of God? Can you tolerate? Can you be patient? Can you behave with humbleness by knowing, without arrogance, that everything good, beautiful and true which emerges through you is coming from Him?
Can you completely forget all favours you do and harms you come across? Can you conceal a secret given to you within yourself? Can you speak less and be silent more? What do you do to increase your spiritual richness and not to raise worldly wealth? Can you live in a mood in which your body is in the world and your heart is in heavenly beloved?
If you manage to do these or you are at least in an effort to do, then you are already in heaven! Death is distant from you. You are always alive with It!

Shadowless Human, Conversations with Hasan Dede, pages 116, 117

Translated by Burak Ülker