If you have the Beloved, you have all that you need

by Farid ud-Din Attar

English version by Sholeh Wolpé
Original Language Persian/Farsi

If you have the Beloved, you have all that you need.
The Seven Seas will be but a bridge beneath your feet.
Everything that has been, is, or will ever be, has an equal except for the great Almighty.
Whatever is not the Beloved, has an equal.
Only the Great One is peerless, ever-present.

-- from The Conferences of the Birds, by Attar / Translated by Sholeh Wolpé

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