The richness of poverty

From a Sufi text:
'The Lord of the Spirit and the Word [Jesus] used to say: "My daily bread is hunger, my badge is fear, my raiment is wool, my mount is my foot, my lantern at night is the moon, and my fire by day is the sun, and my fruit and fragrant herbs are such things as the earth brings forth for the wild beasts and the cattle. All the night I have nothing, yet there is none richer than I!".' (From the writings of Al-Hasan al-Basri, a Sufi saint from Basra in Iraq, who died AD 728; trans. A.J. Arberry.)