Once You Have Seen One

The ‘man or woman of heart’ is a universe. When you have seen them, you have seen all.
“All game is in the belly of the wild ass.”
All creatures in this world are contained in the man and woman of heart.
Good and evil, the dervishes may be, Whoever is not so, no dervishes are they.

Once you have seen one who is the whole, surely you have seen the whole world. Whoever you see after is a mere repetition. That person’s speech is contained in the words of the whole.
Once you have heard their words, every word you hear thereafter is an echo.
Whoever beholds such a one, in any place, Has seen all men and women, all time and space.

 Fihi Ma Fihi - Discourse 16