John Baldock

Knowledge gained through our senses is comparable to knowledge obtained with the palm of a hand: a palm cannot extend over the whole elephant.

Yet the essence of Rumi’s teaching is that our sensory eye can be transformed into the all-seeing eye of the Ocean.

the principle that our human perception of the world normally focuses solely on the outward appearance of things, on the outer ‘form’. As a consequence, we tend to be unaware of the invisible aspect, the true nature or meaning of a thing, its inner ‘essence’.