Ancient wisdom: insights from Sufi sacred Islamic poetry
I came across this wonderful poem in The Sufi Book of Life by Neil Douglas-Klotz (p.56)
‘I’ and ‘you’ focus light
like decorative holes cut
in a lampshade.
But there is only One Light.
‘I’ and ‘you’ throw a
thin veil between
heaven and earth.
Lift the veil and all
creeds and theologies disappear.
When ‘I’ and ‘you’ vanish,
how can I [...]
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