What you seek is seeking you
and what you speak you speak into
existence in a realm you’ll soon
awaken from this dream into.
When the being of light descends
and says “it’s now
my time to meet with you,”
then opens up the body’s cage
and lets the spirit free in you.
The mystery is deep in you:
If you yourself could peak in through
the veil of “you” that isn’t you,
but that you’ve come to think is you.
The one who poured before
is pouring more;
is there a leak in you?
You’re thirsty as the desert for the rain
but there’s a spring in you!
An oasis in the placeless—
come inside and have a drink or two.
This is no mirage,
the mirage is what
you think is true!
All is a mirage except the Face
that always speaks to you
through every single tongue—
all Praise the One
who is Uniquely True.
Rays of the feathered sun
point to one who casts its heat in you;
all the mirrored forms
reflect the Light,
look how it beams in you!
Who receives this breath of life?
And who is it that breathes in you?
The path of letting go of “you”—
is the only path that leads to you.
That paradisal tree, whose leaves
eternally, are deep in bloom.
The secret of all secrets is
you hold its very seeds in you.
The treasure that was loving
to be known
has hid its keys in you.
Is not the chest that holds its jewels
the chest that you are breathing through?
Mount the back of the Buraq
and grab his reins—the noble steed’s in you.
You think yourself a single drop of rain
and yet the sea’s in you!
Give yourself completely now!
Don’t wait until He seizes you!
You think yourself a creature made of clay
and yet He sees in you.
The ear through which He hears,
the very hand which He seizes through,
ma ramait itha ramait
it wasn’t you
but it was We who threw.
What you seek—
before a “you” to seek—
it was seeking you.
And the only thing
that’s keeping you from Oneness
is your seeing two.
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Video by Peter Wintrip
Shot in Fes, Morocco
(Press CC Closed Caption on video to see the words simultaneously)