"Love is not a pleasure garden, it is agony that leaps
Into your spirit, carries out its work that makes you dear
To yourself and to Him, ready to spark the Way in you
That lives beyond belief and unbelief, that merely reaps
Religious piety. With love you shall change, make true
What your souls signify, singing psalms in the air with deep
Regard for the mystery that waits for you both out and in.
When you start the journey you wash away your shadow's sin."1
1. From The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar, new interpretations by Raficq Abdulla. Interlink Books, New York, 2003.
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