"…I have not the strength to undertake this journey…I shall lay down and die at the first stage…But isn't it better to sacrifice one's life in pursuit of this desire [the spiritual path] than to be identified with a business?" Speech of the 2nd Bird.
Farid Ud-Din Attar - The Conference of the Birds.
Farid Ud-Din Attar was one of the earliest Sufi poets of Persia. Attar's best known work is called Mantiq-ut-Tair, or the 'Conference of the Birds'
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