From each, Love demands a mystic silence. <br />What do all seek so earnestly? Tis Love. <br />Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts, <br />In Love no longer 'Thou' and 'I' exist, <br />For self has passed away in the Beloved. <br />Now will I draw aside the veil from Love, <br />And in the temple of mine inmost soul <br />Behold the Friend, Incomparable Love. <br />He who would know the secret of both worlds <br />Will find that the secret of them both is Love.<br /><br />Farīd ud-Dīn Attar Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhī<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mystic-silence/
