Thursday, July 26, 2007

Al Halláj was a legendary Iranian Sufi master who lived between 858 - 922 AD.

I do not cease swimming in the seas of love,
rising with the wave, then descending;
now the wave sustains me, and then I sink beneath it;
love bears me away where there is no longer any shore.
- (Diwan al-Hallaj, M. 34)



" For your sake, I hurry over land and water:
For your sake, I cross the desert and split the mountain in two,
And turn my face from all things,
Until the time I reach the place
Where I am alone with You."

To Reach God -Al Hallaj

"To Reach God From:Perfume of the Desert: Edited: Andrew Harvey

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