From Sufism's Sacred Fihi ma Fihi: Discourses of Rumi, Discourse 10, Part 1 of 2

We must pass beyond the good and bad qualities that are present temporarily in everyone, and must enter into the other’s very essence. These qualities people observe in one another are not their original qualities. How some people say, “How do saints and lovers of God find love in the eternal world beyond form, space and time? How can they gain strength and help? How are they affected by things without body or shape?” All these belong to that formless world. Moment by moment they receive benefits from these abstractions and are affected by them.