Homeward Bound

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.… There have been times I think we do not desire heaven; but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.
_{C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain}

You have come all the way from your eternal home,
  so why delay now?
Accomplish quickly the task for which you are here,
O Lord – please do not procrastinate.…
Enshrine the pearl of your Name in my heart
  so that I may fulfil the purpose of my life.
_{Soami Ji Maharaj, Sar Bachan Poetry}

Where is one whose sorrow
  is not from separation from You
  or whose joy is not from being close to You?…
All Your qualities are hidden in every soul.
Not one vein can open or close
  without Your command.
_{Rumi, Jalal al-Din Rumi: Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi}

The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.
_{Abu Sa’id, as quoted in Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart}