“Do all you can to become a bird of the Way to God;
Do all you can to develop your wings and your feathers.”
"In the Dead of Night" as translated by Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut in Perfume of the Desert
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Attar of Nishapur 18
Persian Sufi poet 1145–1230Related quotes

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