The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea
Of which your Paradise is but a drop
-From The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar (Tr Darbandi and Davis)
Conversation
The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
Content yourself with motes trapped in its beams
-From The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar (Tr Darbandi and Davis)
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Habib Allah - The Conference of the Birds. The Hoopoe, (centre right) instructs the other birds on the Sufi path
Replying to
Francesco Clemente
After Attar's “The Conference of the Birds”, 2010, Watercolor on paper 45 x 45 in
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