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Yet what are seas and what is air? For all
Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth
To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth,
Did He not permeate them, were but names;
Know then, that both this visible world and that
Which unseen is, alike are God Himself,
Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God.

— Attar of Nishapur

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Do all you can to become a bird of the Way to God;
Do all you can to develop your wings and your feathers.

Since I have neither sign nor name
I shall speak only of things unnamed and without sign.

The sea
Will be a sea
Whatever the drop's philosophy.

All things are but masks at God's beck and call,
They are symbols that instruct us that God is all.

From each a mystic silence Love demands.

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