"We move on and on, in search of mystery...and then we come to see that the only mysteries we want are the ones we'll never solve. And all we can do is try to cage with reasons what we know to be beyond the scope of reason. Till at last we surrender to something beyond us, and become unknowable ourselves."
"Metaphor was critical to the Sufis...because it was itself a metaphor: it said that behind the things we see, behind the people who speak, there lies another dimension, and that the other person sees even the things of the world in the light of the eternal."
From Pico Iyer's "Abandon".
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2 comments:
The second quote makes me want to read the book right now.
Tap: You must give it a shot, it has its unique moments. Though not amongst his most highly rated.
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