I am the sea...

The wave is the sea itself yet, when it rises in the form of a wave, it is the
wave and when you look at the whole of it, it is the sea.

Bowl of Saki, November 21, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

There is an Arabic saying, 'If you wish to know God, you must know yourself.'
How little man knows, while he is in the intoxication of individualism! ...

We
are connected with one another. Our lives are tied together, and there is a link
in which we can see one current running through all. There are many globes and
lamps, and yet one current is running through all.

The mystic seeks to realize this constantly and to impress it on his mind in
whatever he may see.

What, for him, are the waves of the sea?

Are they not the
sea itself? ...

Therein lies the whole of religion.

The mystic's prayer is to
that beauty, and his work is to forget the self, to lose himself like a bubble
in the water.

The wave realizes, 'I am the sea', and by falling into the sea
prostrates itself before its God.