The following is taken from The Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri.  For more about him and this collection of instructions, see this earlier post.  This passage refers to a woman with a staff and a woollen robe, which probably implies that she has renounced everything for the Sufi path.

Once Zul Nun Misri was coming from Jerusalem.  He saw a person afar off.  He found a compulsion arising in his heart to question the person.  As he came closer, he saw that it was an old woman, staff in hand and clad in a woollen robe.

“Where are you going?” he asked.

“To God!” came the reply.

He took out a gold dinar to give to her.

“O Zul Nun!” she exclaimed, waving her hands in front of him: “What are you doing?  What are you after?  I do everything for the sake of God and I take nothing from anyone besides Him.  Just as I worship none other than God, neither do I take from anyone except Him.”  Saying this, she disappeared.

A disciple of the Way should be just like that!  The secret lies in this:

Lofty aspiration—no matter to what it aspires—
Do not despise it; it will accomplish its purpose.

Tr. Paul Jackson SJ