Farid Al-Din Attar Quotes

#1. To seek death is death's only cure.

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#2. If you will but aspire
You will attain to all that you desire.
Before an atom of such need the Sun
Seems dim and mirky by comparison.
It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly
Beyond the further reaches of the sky.

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#3. The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

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#4. His part is mercy, ours is endless praise.

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#5. The Sea
Will be the Sea
Whatever the drop's philosophy.

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#6. A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

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#7. Cupbearer, fill the bowl with blood, not wine --
And if you lack the heart's rich blood, take mine.
Love thrives on inextinguishable pain;
Which tears the soul, then knits the threads again.

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#8. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

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#9. If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets

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#10. Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.

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#11. Your coat is beautiful, but where's your brain?

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#12. Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide
Return and back into your Sun subsid

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#13. The ocean can be yours; why should you stop
Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.

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#14. When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.

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#15. Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot ...

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#16. You have the colours of
Those jewels you so inordinately love,
And yet you seem -- like your excuses -- lame.

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#17. Strive to discover the mystery
before life is taken from you.
If while living you fail to find yourself,
to know yourself,
how will you be able to understand
the secret of your existence
after you die?

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#18. I am alone; make me your single goal --
My presence is sufficient for your soul;
I am your God, your one necessity --
With every breath you breathe, remember Me.

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