Those of the Light Seek Those of the Light.

In this world everything attracts something: the hot draws the hot (to itself) and the cold the cold. The worthless sort attract the worthless; the lasting (those of lasting worth) are rejoiced by the lasting.  Those of the Fire attract those of the Fire, those of the Light seek those of the Light.

 When you shut your eye, you felt uncomfortable: how could the light of the eye do without the light of the window? Your discomfort was (caused by) the light in your eye straining to be joined speedily with the daylight.

If you feel distress (within) while your eyes are unclosed, know that you have shut the eye of your heart, (and) open it. Recognise that that (distress) is the craving of the eyes of your heart which is seeking the immeasurable Light.

Inasmuch as separation from those two impermanent lights brought you discomfort, (so that) you opened your eyes, Separation, then, from those two steadfast (everlasting) lights will bring you discomfort: guard them (well)! 


Since He is calling me, I will look to see whether I am worthy to be drawn (to Him) or whether I am ill-favoured. If a charming person makes an ugly one (follow) at his heels, ’tis (but) a mockery that he makes of him. How, I wonder, shall I behold my own face, so as to see what complexion I have and whether I am like day or like night? For a long while I was seeking the image of my soul, (but) my image was not displayed (reflected) by any one. “After all,” I said, “what is a mirror for? (The use of it is this), that every one may know what and who he is.” The mirror of iron is (only) for husks (external forms); the mirror that shows the aspect of the heart is of great price. The soul's mirror is naught but the face of the friend, the face of that friend who is of yonder country (the spiritual land). I said, “O heart, seek the Universal Mirror, go to the Sea: the business will not succeed (be successfully accomplished) by means of the river.”
THE MASNAWI – Volume 2, 80-90