Know the world from end to end is a mirror.

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Know the world from end to end is a mirror; In each atom a hundred suns are concealed. If you pierce the heart of a single drop of water, From it will flow a hundred clear oceans; If you look intently at each speck of dust, In it you will see a thousand beings, A gnat in its limbs is like an elephant; In name a drop of water resembles the Nile, In the heart of a barley-corn is stored an hundred harvests, Within a millet-seed a world exists, In an insect's wing is an ocean of life, A heaven is concealed in the pupil of an eye, The core in the centre of the heart is small, Yet the Lord of both worlds will enter there.

Source Shabistari, Secret Rose Garden, The Mirror · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Shabistari, a Persian Sufi poet, the whole world is a mirror in which the infinite is reflected even in the smallest things, a drop of water, a grain of barley, an insect’s wing, and the heart, however small, can welcome the Lord of both worlds. Today, look for a long moment at a drop of water, a leaf or a seed, let yourself marvel, then open your heart to God in a moment of silence.

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