Beyond human knowledge and understanding

(Quotations from Rabi´a al-Adawiyya)

The one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
(p. 36)

©1999 by Deb Platt


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