All I desire I have found in Him.

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Taverns have been glorified by His lips, Mosques have become shining by His cheek. All I desire I have found in Him, Gaining deliverance from self, My heart was ignorant of itself, Veiled from Him by a hundred veils Of vanity, conceit, and illusion.

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

✨ To meditate on today

According to Shabistari, the Persian Sufi poet, the beauty of God — which Sufi poets describe through the “lips” and the “cheek” of the Beloved — illumines every place, and whoever meets it finds in Him all they desired; only vanity, conceit and illusion veiled their heart. Today, notice a moment when you want to be right or to look good, and let it go once, simply, to let a little more of this light through.

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