“Yet what are seas and what is air? For all
Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth
To veil Divinity.”

— Attar of Nishapur

"All Pervading Consciousness"
Context: Yet what are seas and what is air? For all
Is God, and but a talisman are heaven and earth
To veil Divinity. For heaven and earth,
Did He not permeate them, were but names;
Know then, that both this visible world and that
Which unseen is, alike are God Himself,
Naught is, save God: and all that is, is God.

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Persian Sufi poet 1145–1230

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