Attar of Nishapur

I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand I shall speak only of things unnamed and without sign.

— Attar of Nishapur

The home we seek is in eternity;

— Attar of Nishapur

The SeaWhatever the drop's philosophy.

— Attar of Nishapur

Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral.only a reflection, not the face itself.

— Attar of Nishapur

Don't be dead or asleep or awake.and you'll be that.

— Attar of Nishapur

Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I knowJoy! Joy! No mortal thought can fathom me.

— Attar of Nishapur

From each a mystic silence Love demands.For Self has passed away in the Beloved.

— Attar of Nishapur

He who would know the secret of both worlds,Will find the secret of them both, is Love.

— Attar of Nishapur

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

— Attar of Nishapur

Yet what are seas and what is air? For allNaught is, save God: and all that is, is God.

— Attar of Nishapur

Thou all Creation art, all we behold, but Thou,Before all wert Thou, and are more than all!

— Attar of Nishapur

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

— Attar of Nishapur

All you have been, and seen, and done, and thought,I the Remorse that tow'rd Myself compell'd...

— Attar of Nishapur

Sin and Contrition — Retribution owed,Arrival but Myself at my own Door...

— Attar of Nishapur

Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,Return and back into your Sun subside.

— Attar of Nishapur

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul -

— Attar of Nishapur