God, The One, The Living, The Loving..

If your knowledge of the fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, seek to be cooked by the fire itself, and do not abide in the knowledge derived from others.
There is no certainty until you actually burn; if you desire this certainty, sit down in the fire...
One thought that comes into the mind, and a hundred worlds are overturned in a singe moment.
Small is that thought in the people's eyes; but like a flood it swallowed and swept away the world.
So when you see, that from a thought every craft in the world arises and subsists--that houses and palaces and cities, mountains and plains and rivers, earth and ocean as well as sea and sky derive their life from that thought, like fishes from the sea,
Then why in your foolishness, O blind one, does the body seem to you a Solomon, and thought only as an ant?
The material world, in your eyes, is awful and sublime: you tremble and are frightened at the clouds and the thunder and the sky,
While in regard to the world of thought (and the soul).. you are as secure and indifferent as a witless stone.
From ignorance you deem the shadow to be the substance.
Wait till the day when that thought and phantasy unfolds its wings and pinions without any  veil or encumbrance.
You will see that the mountains have become soft like wool, and that this earth of hot and cold becomes nothing.
You will see then that there is neither the sky nor the stars nor any existence but God, the One, the Living, the loving.

Rumi (Vol.2 from 860-1045

Commentary: Attention all witless stones! Words will not do, not even Rumi's beautiful words..it is time to enter the fire