Gatherings

"I will soar higher than the highest heaven,

I will dive deeper than the depths of the ocean.

I will reach further than the wide horizon,

I will enter within my innermost being.

You know me but little oh everchanging life.

I will live in that sphere where death cannot reach.

I will raise my head high before you will turn your back to me.

I will close my lips before you will close the doors of your heart.

I will dry my tears before you will not respond to my sigh.

I will climb to the heavens oh world of illusion,

Before you will throw me down on the earth."

Pir O Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan, in the Vadan.