Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve. —John A. Wheeler

   

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Know the world from end to end is a mirror; 
in each atom a hundred suns are concealed. 
If you pierce the heart of a single drop of water, 
from it will flow a hundred clear oceans; 
if you look intently at each speck of dust, 
in it you will see a thousand beings. 

A gnat in its limbs is like an elephant; 
in name a drop of water resembles the Nile. 
In the heart of a barleycorn 
is stored a hundred harvests. 
Within a millet-seed a world exists. 
In an insects wing is an ocean of life. 

A heaven is concealed in the pupil of an eye. 
The core at the center of the heart is small, 
yet the Lord of both worlds will enter there.


—Mahmud Shabistari (1288 - 1340)

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Know that this troublesome body is like a coat of armor:
comfortable neither in winter or in summer.

Yet still this bad associate is good for you because of the patience you must show in overcoming its desires, for the exercise of patience expands the heart with spiritual peace.

The patience shown by the moon to the dark night keeps it illumined; the patience shown by the rose to the thorn keeps it fragrant.


—Rumi
Camille and Kabir Helminski version
Persion transliteration Yahyá Monastra

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