"If You are Everything then who are all these people? And if I am nothing what's all this noise about? You are Totality, everything is You. Agreed. T… - Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

Love the phoenix cannot be trapped
nor in heaven or earth can it be named;

no one has yet discovered its address:
its desert holds not a single footprint.

The world drains the last drops from its cup
though itself it is not outside the glass;

dawn and dusk I caress its face, its tresses,
though where it is no day or night exists.

Morning-breeze, if you pass its lane
I have no message for it but this:

My repose, who are my very life, without you
I can take no single breath at ease.

To the eye of the true Witness, no more than One is to be seen –
but since this One Face shows Itself in two mirrors,
each mirror will display a different face.
(p. 73)

I am Love: in heaven and earth I have no place;
I am the Wondrous Phoenix whose spoor cannot be traced.

(p. 72)