"Why do you study knowledge for the sake of worldly mouthfuls? The rope is for people to come out of the well, not for them to go from this well to that well. You must bind yourself to knowing this: 'Who am I? What substance am I? Why have I come? Where am I going? Whence is my root? At this time what am I doing? Toward what have I turned my face?"
–– Shams-i Tabrizi, trans. Chittick, #27 (50-51), Me and Rumi. Thanks Ayn Kha. Image, courtesy of Ali S.
