Silence and stillness reigned there.

Excerpt

It was a path on which one could not advance and where, strange to say, there was neither good nor evil. Silence and stillness reigned there; there was neither increase nor decrease.

Source Mantic uttaïr, The Birds Confer on Going to the Simorg, §2 · 📖 Read the full passage

✨ To meditate on today

According to Attar, the Persian Sufi poet, the birds who set out in search of the Simorg, their king and an image of God, enter a path where good and evil, more and less, are no longer counted: only silence and stillness reign there. Today, faced with a situation you tend to judge, stop for a minute without evaluating anything, and simply let calm settle within you.

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