' The Pearl of great prize '...

"When I became a lover I thought I had gained the Pearl of the Goal;

foolish I did not know that this Pearl lies on the floor of an ocean which has innumerable waves to be encountered and great depths to be sounded."



-Hafiz of Shiraz
Quoted by Avatar Meher Baba
The Everything and the Nothing, 15
Beacon Hill, NSW: Meher House Publications, 1963