the secret of both worlds

   

 

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The whole world is a marketplace for Love,

For naught that is, from Love remains remote.

The Eternal Wisdom made all things in Love.

On Love they all depend, to Love all turn.

The earth, the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars

The center of their orbit find in Love.

By Love are all bewildered, stupefied,

Intoxicated by the Wine of Love.

From each, Love demands a mystic silence.

What do all seek so earnestly? “Tis Love.

Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts,

In Love no longer “Thou” and “I” exist,

For self has passed away in the Beloved. 

Now will I draw aside the veil from Love,

And in the temple of mine inmost soul

Behold the Friend, Incomparable Love.

He who would know the secret of both worlds

Will find that the secret of them both is Love.

—Farid ud Din Attar

Essential Sufism

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