The Conference of the Birds ... Attar

[Some quotes from one of my favourite books]
The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-tair) 
By Farid ad-Din Attar

The whole world is a marketplace for Love,
For naught that is, from Love remains remote ...
The Eternal Wisdom made all things in Love ...
On Love they all depend, to Love all turn ...
The earth ... 
The heavens ... 
The sun ... 
The moon ... 
The stars
The center of their orbit find in Love ...
By Love are all bewildered, stupefied,Intoxicated by the Wine of Love ...

In the dead of night, a Sufi began to weep ...

He said: 
This world is like a closed coffin, in which We are shut ... 
And in which, through our ignorance,We spend our lives in folly and desolation ...
When Death comes to open the lid of the coffin ...
Each one who has wings will fly off to Eternity ...
But those without will remain locked in the coffin ...

So, my friends ... Before the lid of this coffin is taken off ...
Do all you can to become a bird of the Way to God ...
Do all you can to develop your wings and your feathers ...

Let us drown ourselves in the ocean of nonexistence ... 
And come out cloaked with the garment of divine existence ...

God said to Moses once: 
Go out and find The secret truth that haunts the devil's mind ...

When Moses met the devil that same day, he asked for his advice and heard him say:

Remember this, repeat it constantly ... 
Don't speak of "me", or you will be like me ...
If life still holds you by a single hair
The end of your toil will be dispair
No matter how you prosper, there will rise
Before your face a hundred smirking "I"s ...