You are an eye

Since you have perceived the dust of forms,
perceive the wind that moves them;
since you have perceived the form,
perceive the ocean of Creative Energy.

Come, perceive it, for in you
insight is all that matters;
the rest is just fat and flesh,
weft and warp of bones and muscle.

Your fat never increased the light in candles;
your flesh never became roast meat
for someone drunk with spiritual wine.
Dissolve this whole body of yours in vision:

pass into sight, pass into sight, pass into sight!
One sight perceives only two yards ahead;
another sight has beheld the two worlds
and the Face of the King.

Between these two
is an incalculable difference:
seek the remedy of vision,
and God best knows that which is hidden.


Mathnawi VI 1460-1465
Camille & Kabir Helminski translation