A human being is essentially an eye;
the rest is merely flesh and skin:
whatever the eye has beheld, he is that.
A jar will submerge a mountain with
its water
when the eye of the jar is open to
the Sea.
When the interior of the jar has a
Channel to the Sea,
that jar will overwhelm a river as great
as the Oxus.
In the same way whatever speech
Muhammad utters,
those words are really uttered by
the Sea.
All his words were pearls of the Sea.
For his heart had a passage into
that sea.
Since the bounty of the Sea is poured
through our jar,
why should anyone be amazed that the
Sea itself
should be contained in a Fish*?
-Rumi
MATHNAWI VI 812-17.
*The Perfect Human Being
