The seeker said to himself,
"If I'd known the real meaning of this being with God,
how should I have gone searching for Him?"
But that knowledge depended on this journeying:
that knowing can't be gained by thinking,
no matter how precise."
Mathnawi VI:4183-4184
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
