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"For twelve years, I was the blacksmith of my soul. I thrust my soul into the furnace of discipline and made it hot in the flames of arduous endeavor, then I placed it upon the anvil of reproach and hammered it with the hammer of self-blame, till I had fashioned out of my soul amirror. For five years I was my own mirror, and I polished that mirror with every manner of godly service and obedi-ence. After that I gazed upon my own reflection for a year,and I saw about my waist an infidel girdle of delusion and coquetry and self-regard, because I relied upon my own acts of obedience and approved of my own conduct". BÂYEZÎD BISTÂMÎ