More Rumi:
The five spiritual senses are linked with one another: all
the five have grown from one root.
The strength of one invigorates the others: each becomes a
cupbearer to the rest.
Vision increases the power of speech; the inspired speech
makes vision more penetrating.
Clairvoyance sharpens every sense, so that perception of
the unseen becomes familiar to the all.
When one sheep has jumped over a stream, the whole flock
jump across on each other’s heels.
Drive the sheep, thy senses, to pasture; let them browse in
the verdant meadow of Reality,
That ever sense of thine may become an apostle to others
and lead all their senses into that Paradise;
And then those senses will tell their secret to thine, without
words and without conveying either literal or metaphorical
meanings.
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