Farid al-Din Attar Professions : Poet Born : 1145 Died : 1220 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Farid al-Din Attar If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets Farid al-Din Attar eye secret heart The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems -- Which matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the Whole. Farid al-Din Attar ocean dream home The Sea Farid al-Din Attar sea philosophy Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being. Farid al-Din Attar soul love life This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round. Farid al-Din Attar true-friend support friendship The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility. Farid al-Din Attar poverty humility tree When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there. Farid al-Din Attar wave sea firsts The ocean can be yours; why should you stop Farid al-Din Attar ocean secret dream A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look! Farid al-Din Attar kings grieving men A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control. Farid al-Din Attar dancing eye men Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot. Farid al-Din Attar divinity self god Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
