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"He who would know the secret of both worlds, Will find the secret of them both, is Love."
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Faridoddin Abu Hamed Mohammad Attar Nishapuri, better known by his pen-names Faridoddin (فریدالدین) and Attar of Nishapur (عطار نیشاپوری, or simply ATTAR,, was a Persian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry, on poet Rumi, and on Sufism. He wrote a collection of lyrical poems and number of long poems in the philosoph
"He who would know the secret of both worlds, Will find the secret of them both, is Love."
"Thou all Creation art, all we behold, but Thou, The soul within the body lies concealed, And Thou dost hide Thyself within the soul, O soul in soul! Mystry in mystry hid! Before all wert Thou, and are more than all!"
"Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I know Myself as simply me. I burn with love Unto myself, and bury me in love. The centre is within me and its wonder Lies as a circle everywhere about me. Joy! Joy! No mortal thought can fathom me."
"Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral. You can never see your own face, only a reflection, not the face itself."
"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."
"The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drops philosophy."