13th Century Sufi Poet
Centering
If you penetrate the center of time and space,
you can bypass the addictions of the world:
You can become the world yourself.
"The Secret Rose Garden," in Desert Wisdom: Sacred Middle Eastern Writings from the Goddess Through the Sufis , Neil Douglas-Klotz, tr., 1995
Wisdom for The Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions forSpiritual Healing , © 2004