stillness...

"I went to see Nuri. I saw him sitting in meditation
so motionless that not even one hair moved.

I asked, 'From whom did you learn such deep
meditation?'

'I learned it from a cat waiting by a mouse hole. The
cat was much stiller than I.'"


Al-Shibli
in Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
_Travelling the Sufi Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters_
Inverness, CA: Golden Sufi Center, 1995, p. 83