Rumi's Masnavi - Come, perceive (it), for insight (is the only thing) in you (that) avails: the rest of you is a piece of fat and flesh, a weft and warp (of bones, muscles, etc.).

Come, perceive (it), for insight (is the only thing) in you (that) avails: the rest of you is a piece of fat and flesh, a weft and warp (of bones, muscles, etc.).

Your fat never increased the light in candles, your flesh never became roast-meat for any one drunken with (spiritual) wine.

Dissolve the whole of this body of yours in vision: pass into sight, pass into sight, into sight!

One sight perceives (only) two yards of the road; another sight has beheld the two worlds and the Face of the King.

Between these twain there is an incalculable difference: seek the collyrium—and God best knoweth the things occult. 1465

Since you have heard the description of the sea of non-existence, continually endeavour to stand (depend) upon this sea.

Inasmuch as the foundation of the workshop is that non-existence which is void and traceless and empty,

(And inasmuch as) all master-craftsmen seek non-existence and a place of breakage for the purpose of exhibiting their skill,

Necessarily the Lord (who is) the Master of (all) masters— His workshop is non-existence and naught.

Wherever this non-existence is greater, (the more manifest) in that quarter is the work and workshop of God. 1470