Freed from ego...

"No one knows how far it is from nothingness to God.

As long as you cling to your self
you will wander right and left,
day and night, for thousands of years;

and when, after all that effort,
you finally open your eyes,
you will see your self, through inherent defects,
wandering round itself like the ox in a mill;

but, if, once freed from your self,
you finally get down to work,
this door will open to you in two minutes."


Hakim Sanai
Hadaqat – The Walled Garden of Truth
Translated and abridged by D. L Pendlebury
London: Octagon, 1974, p. 31