the Pearl...

"When I became a lover,

I thought I had gained the Pearl of the Goal;

foolish I,

did not know that this Pearl lies on the floor of an ocean which has innumerable waves to be encountered and great depths to be sounded."


Hafiz of Shiraz
Quoted by Avatar Meher Baba
_The Everything and the Nothing_, 15
Beacon Hill, NSW: Meher House Publications, 1963