This thing we tell of can never be found
by seeking, yet only seekers find it.*
~ Abu Yazid al-Bistami**
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* Quoted in Larry Chang, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (Gnosophia Publishers, 2006); on GoogleBooks
** Also known as Bayazid al-Bistami (Bastami means "from the city of Bastam", which is in Iran.)
Abu Yazid al-Bistami, 804-874 CE, Sufi Mystic, Important Early Teacher of Sufi Islam, and Poet
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2 comments:
ah...so...seekers find it when they are not seeking.
or
it is given to seekers when they are doing something besides seeking.
kind of the same, but with a tiny twist.
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