“What you most want,
what you travel around wishing to find,
lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
and you'll be that.”

—  Attar of Nishapur

"Looking For Your Own Face" as translated by Coleman Barks in The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia
Context: Don't be dead or asleep or awake.
Don't be anything.
What you most want,
what you travel around wishing to find,
lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
and you'll be that.

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Persian Sufi poet 1145–1230

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