I looked for Him on the Christian cross, But he was not there. I went to Hindu temples and shrines – but nothing. I visited the Ka'aba in Makka, I did not find Him. I questioned learned scholars, but He outstripped their understanding. Finally, when I peered into my own heart – there, and nowhere else, was His home.

''You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. nothing seemed right.

What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean.

Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient.

It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.

So- I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and

remember me''.

'The philosopher exhausted himself with thinking (figuring out)

let him run on, (in vain) since his back is turned toward the treasure

Let him run on, for the more he keeps running

the farther away does he become from the object of his desire

He did not say, "those who have striven away from Us".

"You search for the one who is with you.

You look for the looker - closer to you than you.

Don't rush outside.

Thaw like melting ice, and wash your self away."

"During the day I praised you and I didn't know

At night I laid with You and I didn't know

I had thought that I was myself

but I was entirely You and I didn't know"