“The Sea
Will be the Sea
Whatever the drop's philosophy.”

—  Attar of Nishapur

As quoted in The Sun at Midnight : The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis (2003) by Laurence Galian

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Persian Sufi poet 1145–1230

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