The Most High is this vast ocean.

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The Most High is this vast ocean. The paradise of earthly delights is but a little drop of it. He who possesses the ocean possesses the drop; all that is not this ocean is folly. When thou canst have the ocean, why wouldst thou go in search of a drop of nocturnal dew?

Source Mantic uttaïr, The Peacock (2), §2 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Attar, in “The Conference of the Birds,” the hoopoe explains to the peacock that God, the Most High, is a vast ocean, and that even the paradise of delights is only a drop of it. Today, when a small desire preoccupies you, smile and turn for a moment toward the Ocean: a prayer, a word of thanks.

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