Behold this in the case of Moses and Mount Sinai. Discern form from substance, as lion from desert, or as sound and speech from the thought they convey. The sound and speech arise from the thought. Thou knowest not where the Ocean of thought is. Yet when thou seest fair waves of speech, thou knowest there is a glorious Ocean beneath them.

When waves of thought arise from the Ocean of Wisdom, they assume the forms of sound and speech. These forms of speech are born and die again; these waves cast themselves back into the Ocean. Form is born of that which is without form, and goes again, for, "Verily to Him do we return."

Wherefore to thee every moment come death and "return." Mustafa saith, "The world endureth only a moment."

~ RUMI ~